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title: The Hawaiians, watching them, waited until they rose, and received w… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiians, watching them, waited until they rose, and received welcome. Who acts: Hawaiians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 18

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The Hawaiians, watching them, waited until they rose, and received welcome.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** watch, wait, rise, receive · **To what, where:** Hawaiians, welcome

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiians), 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:pg66357:11:18
# text = The Hawaiians, watching them, waited until they rose, and received welcome.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | the Hawaiians *not said here* | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the Hawaiians |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | past | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **receive** | past | the Hawaiians *not said here* | welcome |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welcome=Theme |

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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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