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title: The triple canoe of Laa-mai-Kahiki. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The triple canoe of Laa-mai-Kahiki. 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 59

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The triple canoe of Laa-mai-Kahiki.

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**To what, where:** triple canoe

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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:pg66357:10:59
# text = The triple canoe of Laa-mai-Kahiki.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	triple	triple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Kahiki	Kahiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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