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title: The cloth-makers sought eagerly for the bark of the woke—the paper m… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The cloth-makers sought eagerly for the bark of the woke—the paper mulberry tree. Who acts: cloth makers. 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 63

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The cloth-makers sought eagerly for the bark of the woke—the paper mulberry tree.

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**Who acts:** cloth makers · **What happens:** seek · **To what, where:** mulberry tree

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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 (cloth makers), 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:pg66357:14:63
# text = The cloth-makers sought eagerly for the bark of the woke—the paper mulberry tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woke	woke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | the cloth makers | the mulberry tree |  |  |  | for the bark of the woke; eagerly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bark=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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