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title: A few days later Admiral Thomas, commander of the English navy in th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A few days later Admiral Thomas, commander of the English navy in the Pacific, arrived in Honolulu, and “in most courteous terms solicited a personal interview with the king.” Who acts: Admiral Thomas. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its depen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 75

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A few days later Admiral Thomas, commander of the English navy in the Pacific, arrived in Honolulu, and “in most courteous terms solicited a personal interview with the king.”

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**Who acts:** Admiral Thomas · **What happens:** arrive, solicit · **To what, where:** Honolulu, personal interview, most courteous terms

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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 (Admiral Thomas), 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:pg66357:22:75
# text = A few days later Admiral Thomas, commander of the English navy in the Pacific, arrived in Honolulu, and “in most courteous terms solicited a personal interview with the king.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
5	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	navy	navy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
25	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
27	solicited	solicit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Admiral Thomas |  |  | Honolulu |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **solicit** *in a quote* | past | Admiral Thomas *not said here* | a personal interview |  | most courteous terms |  | with the king | tree rules |

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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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