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title: In 1849 Admiral Tromelin sailed into Honolulu harbour and made some… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 92

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In 1849 Admiral Tromelin sailed into Honolulu harbour and made some emphatic demands, alleging that the king had unlawfully fined a French ship.

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**Who acts:** Admiral · **What happens:** sail, make, allege, fine · **To what, where:** 1849, emphatic demands, king

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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), 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:pg66357:22:92
# text = In 1849 Admiral Tromelin sailed into Honolulu harbour and made some emphatic demands, alleging that the king had unlawfully fined a French ship.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1849	1849	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Tromelin	Tromelin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	emphatic	emphatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	alleging	allege	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	unlawfully	unlawfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fined	fine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | Admiral |  |  | 1849 |  | into Honolulu harbour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbour=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | past | Admiral *not said here* | some emphatic demands |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product |
| 3 | **allege** *speech: other* | gerund | Admiral *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fine** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king |  |  |  | a French ship *obj*; unlawfully *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient ship=Asset |

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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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