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title: The people of Puna, looking toward the dawn on the sea, had noticed… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of Puna, looking toward the dawn on the sea, had noticed the boat far out. Who acts: people. 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 89

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The people of Puna, looking toward the dawn on the sea, had noticed the boat far out.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** look, notice · **To what, where:** boat

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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 (people), 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:pg66357:18:89
# text = The people of Puna, looking toward the dawn on the sea, had noticed the boat far out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | the people of Puna *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **notice** | past · perfect | the people of Puna | the boat |  |  |  | out *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus |

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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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