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title: He revelled in the beauty of the sun rising and setting in glorious… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He revelled in the beauty of the sun rising and setting in glorious colours on the restless waves. Who acts: loa. 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 43

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He revelled in the beauty of the sun rising and setting in glorious colours on the restless waves.

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**Who acts:** loa · **What happens:** revell, rise, set · **To what, where:** beauty, glorious colours

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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 (loa), 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:pg66357:5:43
# text = He revelled in the beauty of the sun rising and setting in glorious colours on the restless waves.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	revelled	revell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revell** | past | loa |  |  | the beauty of the sun |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | loa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | gerund | loa *not said here* |  |  | glorious colours on the restless waves |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in colour=Destination |

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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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