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title: In a moment his spear and javelin were taken from him and a renowned… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment his spear and javelin were taken from him and a renowned Maui chief caught him and placed him on his back with the face upward, so that he could not do any injury. Who acts: renowned Maui chief, opposition. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oah
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 55

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In a moment his spear and javelin were taken from him and a renowned Maui chief caught him and placed him on his back with the face upward, so that he could not do any injury.

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**Who acts:** renowned Maui chief, opposition · **What happens:** take, catch, place, not do · **To what, where:** spear, opposition, back, injury

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (renowned Maui chief, opposition), 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:pg66357:16:55
# text = In a moment his spear and javelin were taken from him and a renowned Maui chief caught him and placed him on his back with the face upward, so that he could not do any injury.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	javelin	javelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | opposition's spear and javelin |  |  | moment | from opposition | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | a renowned Maui chief | opposition |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past | a renowned Maui chief *not said here* | opposition |  | opposition's back |  | with the face; upward *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **do** | could | opposition | any injury |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality |

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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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