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title: The largest double canoes were selected, their mat sails were made f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest double canoes were selected, their mat sails were made from new and strong hala leaves and they were equipped for the long voyage. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 28

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The largest double canoes were selected, their mat sails were made from new and strong hala leaves and they were equipped for the long voyage.

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**What happens:** select, make, equip · **To what, where:** largest double canoes, mat sails, new hala leaves, sails

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66357:10:28
# text = The largest double canoes were selected, their mat sails were made from new and strong hala leaves and they were equipped for the long voyage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	hala	hala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · passive |  | the largest double canoes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | canoes's mat sails |  | new hala leaves |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from leaf=Material |
| 3 | **equip** | past · passive |  | sails *= sail* |  |  |  | for the long voyage | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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