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title: The king, however, had withdrawn his troops, leaving an empty fort w… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, however, had withdrawn his troops, leaving an empty fort with the Hawaiian flag flying from its staff. Who acts: king, Hawaiian flag. 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 95

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The king, however, had withdrawn his troops, leaving an empty fort with the Hawaiian flag flying from its staff.

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**Who acts:** king, Hawaiian flag · **What happens:** withdraw, leave, fly · **To what, where:** troops, empty fort, staff

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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 (king, Hawaiian flag), 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:pg66357:22:95
# text = The king, however, had withdrawn his troops, leaving an empty fort with the Hawaiian flag flying from its staff.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	withdrawn	withdraw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | past · perfect | the king | king's troops |  |  |  | however *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the king *not said here* | a empty fort |  |  |  | with the Hawaiian flag | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent fort=Recipient with flag=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the Hawaiian flag *not said here* |  |  | fort's staff |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from staff=Trajectory |

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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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