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title: In the afternoon the followers of Nanaulu were tested and a like bod… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the afternoon the followers of Nanaulu were tested and a like bodyguard selected for this young prince. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 120

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In the afternoon the followers of Nanaulu were tested and a like bodyguard selected for this young prince.

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**What happens:** test, select · **To what, where:** followers, like bodyguard

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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: 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:pg66357:7:120
# text = In the afternoon the followers of Nanaulu were tested and a like bodyguard selected for this young prince.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | past · passive |  | the followers of Nanaulu |  |  | afternoon | a like bodyguard *conj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **select** | participle |  | a like bodyguard *not said here* |  |  |  | for this young prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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