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title: One fleet of canoes under the Kauai king rendezvoused his boats at H… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One fleet of canoes under the Kauai king rendezvoused his boats at Hana, an old and well-known harbour on Maui just across the channel from Hawaii. Who acts: One fleet. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 38

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One fleet of canoes under the Kauai king rendezvoused his boats at Hana, an old and well-known harbour on Maui just across the channel from Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** One fleet · **What happens:** rendezvous, know · **To what, where:** boats, Hana

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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: who acts (One fleet), 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:pg66357:17:38
# text = One fleet of canoes under the Kauai king rendezvoused his boats at Hana, an old and well-known harbour on Maui just across the channel from Hawaii.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	rendezvoused	rendezvous	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Hana	Hana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rendezvous** | past | One fleet of canoes | fleet's boats |  | Hana |  | under the Kauai king; across the channel from Hawaii | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle | One fleet of canoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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