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title: He heard her order her attendants, the brightest flashes of lightnin… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He heard her order her attendants, the brightest flashes of lightning, to watch for any one approaching and capture all who came walking upright as a man. Who acts: Maui, Hine, lightning. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency t
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 23

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He heard her order her attendants, the brightest flashes of lightning, to watch for any one approaching and capture all who came walking upright as a man.

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**Who acts:** Maui, Hine, lightning · **What happens:** hear, order, watch, approach, capture, come · **To what, where:** Hine, attendants

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui, Hine, lightning), 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:pg66357:3:23
# text = He heard her order her attendants, the brightest flashes of lightning, to watch for any one approaching and capture all who came walking upright as a man.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	capture	capture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Maui | Hine |  |  |  | the brightest flashes of lightning *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | infinitive | Hine *not said here* | Hine's attendants |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for any one | tree rules |
| 4 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **capture** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a man; upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **flash** |  | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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