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title: The chiefess turned the dog out again; at once there was more barking. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The chiefess turned the dog out again; at once there was more barking. Who acts: chiefess, more. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 46

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The chiefess turned the dog out again; at once there was more barking.

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**Who acts:** chiefess, more · **What happens:** turn out, be, bark · **To what, where:** dog

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefess, more), 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:pg66357:4:46
# text = The chiefess turned the dog out again; at once there was more barking.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	_
14	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | past | the chiefess | the dog |  |  | again | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | more |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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