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title: Another blast, and there could be seen a number of gigantic slaves c… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Another blast, and there could be seen a number of gigantic slaves coming from the door of a stone temple not far away. Who acts: blast, gigantic slaves. 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 15

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Another blast, and there could be seen a number of gigantic slaves coming from the door of a stone temple not far away.

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**Who acts:** blast, gigantic slaves · **What happens:** see, come · **To what, where:** number, door, blast

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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 (blast, gigantic slaves), 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:pg66357:7:15
# text = Another blast, and there could be seen a number of gigantic slaves coming from the door of a stone temple not far away.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could · passive | another blast *not said here* | a number of gigantic slaves |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: number=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | gigantic slaves *not said here* |  |  | the door of a stone temple |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from door=Initial\_Location |

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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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