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title: Sometimes they made this paper-cloth into waterproof cloaks and shee… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes they made this paper-cloth into waterproof cloaks and sheets by soaking it in cocoanut or kukui nut oil. Who acts: 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 66

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Sometimes they made this paper-cloth into waterproof cloaks and sheets by soaking it in cocoanut or kukui nut oil.

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**Who acts:** makers · **What happens:** make, soak · **To what, where:** paper cloth, waterproof cloaks, cloth

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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 (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:pg66357:14:66
# text = Sometimes they made this paper-cloth into waterproof cloaks and sheets by soaking it in cocoanut or kukui nut oil.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	soaking	soak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	kukui	kukui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	_
20	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | makers *= maker* | this paper cloth |  | waterproof cloaks and sheets |  | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent cloth=Material into cloak=Product |
| 2 | **soak** | gerund | makers *= maker* *not said here* | cloth |  |  |  | in cocoanut or nut oil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination in cocoanut=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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