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title: The long canoe voyage appears to have been blessed with favouring wi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The long canoe voyage appears to have been blessed with favouring winds and clear skies. Who acts: long canoe 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 34

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The long canoe voyage appears to have been blessed with favouring winds and clear skies.

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**Who acts:** long canoe voyage · **What happens:** appear, bless

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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: who acts (long canoe voyage), 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:pg66357:10:34
# text = The long canoe voyage appears to have been blessed with favouring winds and clear skies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	favouring	favouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the long canoe voyage |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the long canoe voyage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with favouring winds and clear skies | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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