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title: Thus in lordly dignity they ignored each other until, standing side… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus in lordly dignity they ignored each other until, standing side by side, each made a sudden movement as if expecting to find the other off his guard. Who acts: arms, each. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 105

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Thus in lordly dignity they ignored each other until, standing side by side, each made a sudden movement as if expecting to find the other off his guard.

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**Who acts:** arms, each · **What happens:** ignore, stand, make, expect, find off · **To what, where:** each, lordly dignity, side, sudden movement, other

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, each), 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:pg66357:7:105
# text = Thus in lordly dignity they ignored each other until, standing side by side, each made a sudden movement as if expecting to find the other off his guard.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	lordly	lordly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obj	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | past | arms *= arm* | each |  | lordly dignity |  | thus *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | arms *= arm* *not said here* | side |  |  |  | by side | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | each | a sudden movement |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product |
| 4 | **expect** | gerund | each *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **find off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | the other |  |  |  | combatant's guard *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent other=Theme guard=Attribute |

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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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