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title: When the flush of indignant anger had passed, Paao grieved over the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the flush of indignant anger had passed, Paao grieved over the body which lay decomposing upon the altar. Who acts: Paao, body. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 46

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When the flush of indignant anger had passed, Paao grieved over the body which lay decomposing upon the altar.

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**Who acts:** Paao, body · **What happens:** pass, grieve, lie, decompose · **To what, where:** flush, body

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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, body), 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:pg66357:8:46
# text = When the flush of indignant anger had passed, Paao grieved over the body which lay decomposing upon the altar.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flush	flush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	decomposing	decompose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | the flush of indignant anger |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **grieve** | past | Paao |  |  | the body |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the body |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **decompose** | gerund | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the altar | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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