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title: The war god rides on the surf To land on the banks of Wai-luku.” — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The war god rides on the surf To land on the banks of Wai-luku.” Who acts: war god. 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 161

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The war god rides on the surf To land on the banks of Wai-luku.”

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**Who acts:** war god · **What happens:** ride, land · **To what, where:** surf, banks

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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 (war god), 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:pg66357:14:161
# text = The war god rides on the surf To land on the banks of Wai-luku.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	To	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | the war god |  |  | the surf |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **land** | to-infinitive | the war god *not said here* |  |  | the banks |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on bank=Destination |

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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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