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title: In this way the forenoon passed, and at last a few noble chiefs, exq… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way the forenoon passed, and at last a few noble chiefs, exquisite in the beauty of perfect muscular manhood, stood before the king, chosen to be the special bodyguard of Ulu in the mysterious journey of the coming days. Who acts: forenoon. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 119

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In this way the forenoon passed, and at last a few noble chiefs, exquisite in the beauty of perfect muscular manhood, stood before the king, chosen to be the special bodyguard of Ulu in the mysterious journey of the coming days.

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**Who acts:** forenoon · **What happens:** pass, stand, choose, be, come, journey · **To what, where:** way, king, special bodyguard, mysterious journey, coming days

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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 (forenoon), 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:pg66357:7:119
# text = In this way the forenoon passed, and at last a few noble chiefs, exquisite in the beauty of perfect muscular manhood, stood before the king, chosen to be the special bodyguard of Ulu in the mysterious journey of the coming days.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forenoon	forenoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	muscular	muscular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	advcl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	amod	_	_
45	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the forenoon |  |  | this way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the forenoon *not said here* |  |  |  | before the king |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location |
| 3 | **choose** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the special bodyguard |  | the mysterious journey of the coming days |  | of Ulu | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **journey** |  |  | the coming days |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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