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title: The least loosening of muscles on the part of one was interpreted in… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The least loosening of muscles on the part of one was interpreted in a moment by the other, and neither one hastened to carry out a move which might place him at the other’s mercy. Who acts: one, move. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its depende
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 110

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The least loosening of muscles on the part of one was interpreted in a moment by the other, and neither one hastened to carry out a move which might place him at the other’s mercy.

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**Who acts:** one, move · **What happens:** interpret, hasten, carry out, place, loosen · **To what, where:** least loosening, move, mercy, antagonist, muscles

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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 (one, move), 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:pg66357:7:110
# text = The least loosening of muscles on the part of one was interpreted in a moment by the other, and neither one hastened to carry out a move which might place him at the other’s mercy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	loosening	loosening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	interpreted	interpret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interpret** | past · passive |  | the least loosening of muscles on the part of one |  |  | moment | by the other | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle | neither one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | neither one *not said here* | a move and place |  | the other's mercy |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Eventuality |
| 4 | **place** | might | a move and place | antagonist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **loosen** |  |  | muscles on the part of one |  |  |  |  | nom loosening «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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