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title: He had gone to Hilo and was having a fine fleet of wide and deep can… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He had gone to Hilo and was having a fine fleet of wide and deep canoes made in the splendid koa forests back of Hilo. Who acts: king. 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 163

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He had gone to Hilo and was having a fine fleet of wide and deep canoes made in the splendid koa forests back of Hilo.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** go, have, make · **To what, where:** Hilo, fine fleet, wide canoes, splendid koa forests

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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 (king), 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:pg66357:18:163
# text = He had gone to Hilo and was having a fine fleet of wide and deep canoes made in the splendid koa forests back of Hilo.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	koa	koa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | king |  |  | Hilo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hilo=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past · progressive | king *not said here* | a fine fleet of wide canoes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | wide canoes *not said here* |  | the splendid koa forests |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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