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title: Two Hawaiian chiefs of splendid physique were hurriedly climbing a z… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Hawaiian chiefs of splendid physique were hurriedly climbing a zigzag path up the face of an exceedingly steep bluff bordering the little bay of Lau-pa-hoe-hoe. Who acts: Two Hawaiian chiefs, exceedingly steep bluff. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 10

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Two Hawaiian chiefs of splendid physique were hurriedly climbing a zigzag path up the face of an exceedingly steep bluff bordering the little bay of Lau-pa-hoe-hoe.

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**Who acts:** Two Hawaiian chiefs, exceedingly steep bluff · **What happens:** climb, border · **To what, where:** zigzag path, little bay

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Hawaiian chiefs, exceedingly steep bluff), 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:pg66357:18:10
# text = Two Hawaiian chiefs of splendid physique were hurriedly climbing a zigzag path up the face of an exceedingly steep bluff bordering the little bay of Lau-pa-hoe-hoe.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	physique	physique	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bluff	bluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	bordering	border	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
26	Lau	Lau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past · progressive | Two Hawaiian chiefs of splendid physique | a zigzag path |  |  |  | up the face of a exceedingly steep bluff; hurriedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location path=Theme |
| 2 | **border** | gerund | a exceedingly steep bluff *not said here* | the little bay of pa hoe hoe  Lau |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bay=Co-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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