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title: His body was splendidly marked by the tattoo-bones, and now well oil… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His body was splendidly marked by the tattoo-bones, and now well oiled shone and sparkled in the last rays of the setting sun. Who acts: tattoo bones. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 41

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His body was splendidly marked by the tattoo-bones, and now well oiled shone and sparkled in the last rays of the setting sun.

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**Who acts:** tattoo bones · **What happens:** mark, shine, sparkle, ray · **To what, where:** body, last rays, setting sun.

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tattoo bones), 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:pg66357:3:41
# text = His body was splendidly marked by the tattoo-bones, and now well oiled shone and sparkled in the last rays of the setting sun.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	tattoo	tattoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	oiled	oil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past · passive | the tattoo bones | Maui's body |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 2 | **shine** | participle · passive | the tattoo bones *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle | the tattoo bones *not said here* |  |  | the last rays of the setting sun. |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location |
| 4 | **ray** |  |  | the setting sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: 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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