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title: Through the Wai-luku lands dashes a swiftly flowing stream of clear,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the Wai-luku lands dashes a swiftly flowing stream of clear, cold water, breaking through the foothills of Mt. 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 152

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Through the Wai-luku lands dashes a swiftly flowing stream of clear, cold water, breaking through the foothills of Mt.

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**What happens:** dash, flow, break · **To what, where:** flowing stream, Wai lands, foothills

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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: 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:pg66357:14:152
# text = Through the Wai-luku lands dashes a swiftly flowing stream of clear, cold water, breaking through the foothills of Mt.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
6	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	dashes	dash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foothills	foothill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Mt	Mt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | present |  | a flowing stream of clear cold water |  | the Wai lands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme through land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | gerund |  |  |  | the foothills of Mt |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through foothill=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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