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title: In the first part of July, about four months and a half after Lord P… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the first part of July, about four months and a half after Lord Paulet’s seizure of the islands, Commodore Kearney, in the old U. S. frigate Constitution, entered Honolulu harbour. Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its depende
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 70

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In the first part of July, about four months and a half after Lord Paulet’s seizure of the islands, Commodore Kearney, in the old U. S. frigate Constitution, entered Honolulu harbour.

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** enter, seize · **To what, where:** Honolulu harbour, first part, islands

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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 (Lord), 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:pg66357:22:70
# text = In the first part of July, about four months and a half after Lord Paulet’s seizure of the islands, Commodore Kearney, in the old U. S. frigate Constitution, entered Honolulu harbour.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	conj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
18	seizure	seizure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Commodore	Commodore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	Kearney	Kearney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	U.	U.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	frigate	frigate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
32	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
34	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past |  | Honolulu harbour |  | the first part of July and four months and a half after Lord's seizure of the islands  Commodore and the old S. frigate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Destination |
| 2 | **seize** |  | Lord | the islands |  |  |  |  | nom seizure «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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