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title: The cry arose: “On to Wai-luku! — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The cry arose: “On to Wai-luku! Who acts: cry. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 148

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The cry arose: “On to Wai-luku!

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**Who acts:** cry · **What happens:** arise · **To what, where:** Wai

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry), 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:pg66357:14:148
# text = The cry arose: “On to Wai-luku!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	On	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the cry |  |  | Wai |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wai=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 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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