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title: He had the right to sail a canoe stained red, from the mast of which… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He had the right to sail a canoe stained red, from the mast of which floated a pennant over a red sail. Who acts: system, mast. 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 98

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He had the right to sail a canoe stained red, from the mast of which floated a pennant over a red sail.

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**Who acts:** system, mast · **What happens:** have, sail, stain, float · **To what, where:** right, canoe, mast, pennant, red sail

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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 (system, mast), 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:pg66357:14:98
# text = He had the right to sail a canoe stained red, from the mast of which floated a pennant over a red sail.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pennant	pennant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | system | the right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **sail** | to-infinitive | system *not said here* | a canoe |  | the mast |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme from mast=Trajectory |
| 3 | **stain** | participle |  | a canoe *not said here* |  |  |  | red *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **float** | past | the mast | a pennant |  | a red sail |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pennant=Theme over sail=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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