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title: He had managed through all the campaign, to surround himself with my… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He had managed through all the campaign, to surround himself with mysteries, and had gained unbounded influence through arousing superstitious fears as well as through warlike deeds. Who acts: Paao. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 217

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He had managed through all the campaign, to surround himself with mysteries, and had gained unbounded influence through arousing superstitious fears as well as through warlike deeds.

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**Who acts:** Paao · **What happens:** manage, surround, gain, arouse · **To what, where:** campaign, Paao, unbounded influence, superstitious fears

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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:pg66357:8:217
# text = He had managed through all the campaign, to surround himself with mysteries, and had gained unbounded influence through arousing superstitious fears as well as through warlike deeds.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	surround	surround	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mysteries	mystery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
18	unbounded	unbounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	arousing	arouse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	superstitious	superstitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past · perfect | Paao |  |  | all campaign |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **surround** | to-infinitive |  | Paao |  |  |  | with mysteries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with mystery=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | past · perfect |  | unbounded influence |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme |
| 4 | **arouse** | gerund |  | superstitious fears |  |  |  | warlike deeds *conj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer |

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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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