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title: They made themselves at home in Sneeland (Snowland), now Iceland and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They made themselves at home in Sneeland (Snowland), now Iceland and Greenland. Who acts: Vikings. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 11

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They made themselves at home in Sneeland (Snowland), now Iceland and Greenland.

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**Who acts:** Vikings · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Vikings, home

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikings), 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:pg66357:5:11
# text = They made themselves at home in Sneeland (Snowland), now Iceland and Greenland.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sneeland	Sneeland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Snowland	Snowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Vikings *= viking* | Vikings *= viking* |  | home |  | in Sneeland and Iceland and Greenland | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |

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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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