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title: Below Wai-luku lies a sandy tract through which the winds swept with… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Below Wai-luku lies a sandy tract through which the winds swept with power. Who acts: Wai, winds. 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 165

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Below Wai-luku lies a sandy tract through which the winds swept with power.

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**Who acts:** Wai, winds · **What happens:** lie, sweep · **To what, where:** sandy tract

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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 (Wai, winds), 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:pg66357:14:165
# text = Below Wai-luku lies a sandy tract through which the winds swept with power.
1	Below	below	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
5	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Wai | a sandy tract |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tract=Theme |
| 2 | **sweep** | past | the winds |  |  | a sandy tract |  | with power | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory |

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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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