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title: “Thomas Square” was so named and set apart as a perpetual park near… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thomas Square” was so named and set apart as a perpetual park near the heart of the city, in honour of this action of Admiral Thomas. Who acts: Admiral Thomas. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 83

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“Thomas Square” was so named and set apart as a perpetual park near the heart of the city, in honour of this action of Admiral Thomas.

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**Who acts:** Admiral Thomas · **What happens:** name, set apart, honour, act · **To what, where:** Thomas Square, honour, action

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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:pg66357:22:83
# text = “Thomas Square” was so named and set apart as a perpetual park near the heart of the city, in honour of this action of Admiral Thomas.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | Thomas Square |  | honour of this action of Admiral Thomas |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **set apart** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a perpetual park near the heart of the city; apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **honour** |  |  | this action of Admiral Thomas |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **act** |  | Admiral Thomas |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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