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title: The trumpeter with his large pu or conch shell sounded the call of t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The trumpeter with his large pu or conch shell sounded the call of the coming of the king. Who acts: trumpeter, call. 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 40

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The trumpeter with his large pu or conch shell sounded the call of the coming of the king.

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**Who acts:** trumpeter, call · **What happens:** sound, come · **To what, where:** call

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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 (trumpeter, call), 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:pg66357:7:40
# text = The trumpeter with his large pu or conch shell sounded the call of the coming of the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pu	pu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	conch	conch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the trumpeter with trumpeter's large pu or conch shell | the call |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location call=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the call *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of king=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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