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title: They seized paddles and nets and snares and with the screaming women… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They seized paddles and nets and snares and with the screaming women and children fled, rushing along the reef, falling into the deep holes, swimming and stumbling toward the mainland. Who acts: people, screaming women. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 96

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They seized paddles and nets and snares and with the screaming women and children fled, rushing along the reef, falling into the deep holes, swimming and stumbling toward the mainland.

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**Who acts:** people, screaming women · **What happens:** seize, scream, flee, rush, fall, stumble · **To what, where:** paddles, reef, deep holes, mainland

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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, screaming women), 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:pg66357:18:96
# text = They seized paddles and nets and snares and with the screaming women and children fled, rushing along the reef, falling into the deep holes, swimming and stumbling toward the mainland.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	paddles	paddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
31	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | people | paddles and nets and snares |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Theme |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the screaming women and children |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rush** | gerund | the screaming women and children *not said here* |  |  | the reef |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along reef=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fall** | gerund | the screaming women and children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the deep holes and swimming *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hole=Result |
| 6 | **stumble** | gerund | the screaming women and children *not said here* |  |  | the mainland |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward mainland=Trajectory |

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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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