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title: Finally, leaving his consulate in the hands of a friend, he went to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, leaving his consulate in the hands of a friend, he went to England to present his own claims. Who acts: advocate. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 59

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Finally, leaving his consulate in the hands of a friend, he went to England to present his own claims.

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**Who acts:** advocate · **What happens:** leave, go, present, claim · **To what, where:** consulate, hands, England, own claims

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advocate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:22:59
# text = Finally, leaving his consulate in the hands of a friend, he went to England to present his own claims.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	consulate	consulate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | advocate *not said here* | advocate's consulate |  | the hands of a friend |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent consulate=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | advocate |  |  | England |  | finally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to england=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **present** | to-infinitive | advocate *not said here* | advocate's own claims |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** |  | advocate |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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