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title: In his last campaign it is said his fleet of canoes lined the beach… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In his last campaign it is said his fleet of canoes lined the beach of one of the islands for a distance of four miles. 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 157

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In his last campaign it is said his fleet of canoes lined the beach of one of the islands for a distance of four miles.

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**Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** say, line, campaign · **To what, where:** campaign, beach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg66357:18:157
# text = In his last campaign it is said his fleet of canoes lined the beach of one of the islands for a distance of four miles.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	lined	line	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | campaign |  |  |  | Ka's fleet of canoes *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **line** | past |  | the beach of one of the islands for a distance of four miles |  |  |  | in Ka's last campaign | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent beach=Destination in campaign=Theme |
| 3 | **campaign** |  | Ka |  |  |  |  |  | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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