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title: Anything, therefore, which gave out an explosive noise when blown in… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Anything, therefore, which gave out an explosive noise when blown into was called “pu.” A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 23

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Anything, therefore, which gave out an explosive noise when blown into was called “pu.”

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**What happens:** give out, blow, call · **To what, where:** explosive noise, Anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66357:17:23
# text = Anything, therefore, which gave out an explosive noise when blown into was called “pu.”
1	Anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	explosive	explosive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pu	pu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | past |  | a explosive noise |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; therefore *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent noise=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | Anything |  |  |  | pu *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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