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title: In 1823 a delegation of missionaries went around the island Hawaii. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1823 a delegation of missionaries went around the island Hawaii. Who acts: delegation. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 15

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In 1823 a delegation of missionaries went around the island Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** delegation · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** 1823

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delegation), 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:pg66516:23:15
# text = In 1823 a delegation of missionaries went around the island Hawaii.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1823	1823	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	delegation	delegation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a delegation of missionaries |  |  | 1823 |  | around the island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around island=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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