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description: These are simply graphic descriptions of an eclipse, and also of a chief who carried his common people—his servants—with him across the waters. Who acts: These, chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 62

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These are simply graphic descriptions of an eclipse, and also of a chief who carried his common people—his servants—with him across the waters.

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**Who acts:** These, chief · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** graphic descriptions, common people

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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 (These, chief), 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:pg66357:5:62
# text = These are simply graphic descriptions of an eclipse, and also of a chief who carried his common people—his servants—with him across the waters.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	graphic	graphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
26	across	across	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | These | graphic descriptions and a chief and earth's servants with earth across the waters |  |  |  | of a eclipse; a chief *conj*; earth's servants with earth across the waters *conj*; simply *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | a chief | earth's common people |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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