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title: He had large boats built and armed with small swivel cannon. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He had large boats built and armed with small swivel cannon. Who acts: 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 154

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He had large boats built and armed with small swivel cannon.

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**Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** have, build · **To what, where:** large boats

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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 (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:pg66357:18:154
# text = He had large boats built and armed with small swivel cannon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	swivel	swivel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Ka | large boats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | large boats *not said here* |  |  |  | with small swivel cannon | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with cannon=Source |

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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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