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title: A fisherman turned and threw his fishnet over the pursuing chief, ca… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A fisherman turned and threw his fishnet over the pursuing chief, causing him to fall down upon the sharp lava. Who acts: fisherman, Ka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 101

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A fisherman turned and threw his fishnet over the pursuing chief, causing him to fall down upon the sharp lava.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, Ka · **What happens:** turn, throw, pursue, cause, fall down · **To what, where:** fishnet, pursuing chief, Ka, sharp lava

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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 (fisherman, Ka), 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:pg66357:18:101
# text = A fisherman turned and threw his fishnet over the pursuing chief, causing him to fall down upon the sharp lava.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fishnet	fishnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | a fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | past | a fisherman *not said here* | Ka's fishnet |  | the pursuing chief |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fishnet=Theme over chief=Destination |
| 3 | **pursue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | a fisherman *not said here* | Ka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall down** | to-infinitive | Ka *not said here* |  |  | the sharp lava |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon lava=Location |

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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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