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title: The smaller stones were about an inch thick and about six inches in… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The smaller stones were about an inch thick and about six inches in circumference. Who acts: smaller stones. 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 185

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The smaller stones were about an inch thick and about six inches in circumference.

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**Who acts:** smaller stones · **What happens:** be

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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 (smaller stones), 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:pg66357:7:185
# text = The smaller stones were about an inch thick and about six inches in circumference.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	circumference	circumference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the smaller stones |  |  |  |  | a inch *obl:unmarked*; six inches in circumference *conj*; thick *property* | tree rules |

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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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