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title: If perhaps she can carry, give you to me sahs tools,” signed “Gov. A… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: If perhaps she can carry, give you to me sahs tools,” signed “Gov. Adams.” Who acts: wife. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 12

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If perhaps she can carry, give you to me sahs tools,” signed “Gov. Adams.”

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** carry, give, sign · **To what, where:** sahs tools, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg66357:20:12
# text = If perhaps she can carry, give you to me sahs tools,” signed “Gov. Adams.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advcl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	sahs	sah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Gov.	Gov.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Adams	adam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | sahs tools | you |  |  | to me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tool=Theme |
| 3 | **sign** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Gov. Adams *obl:agent* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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