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title: The natives of Papai, a bay on the Puna coast, hastened into the sea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The natives of Papai, a bay on the Puna coast, hastened into the sea to gather the delicacies which are usually found among the shell-fish along the reef, and also to set nets and snares for fish. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 86

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The natives of Papai, a bay on the Puna coast, hastened into the sea to gather the delicacies which are usually found among the shell-fish along the reef, and also to set nets and snares for fish.

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**What happens:** hasten, gather, find, set · **To what, where:** natives, sea, delicacies, nets

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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: 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:pg66357:18:86
# text = The natives of Papai, a bay on the Puna coast, hastened into the sea to gather the delicacies which are usually found among the shell-fish along the reef, and also to set nets and snares for fish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Papai	Papai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	along	along	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
38	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle · passive |  | the natives of Papai |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive |  | the delicacies |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delicacy=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | the delicacies |  |  |  | among the shell fish along the reef; usually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive |  | nets and snares |  |  |  | for fish | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent net=Patient for fish=Beneficiary |

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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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