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title: He took his bamboo stick with all his aid inside and put it under hi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He took his bamboo stick with all his aid inside and put it under his arm, put on his magic cloak, and said “Aloha.” Who acts: god. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 106

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He took his bamboo stick with all his aid inside and put it under his arm, put on his magic cloak, and said “Aloha.”

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**Who acts:** god · **What happens:** take, put, say · **To what, where:** bamboo stick, stick, arm, magic cloak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (god), 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:pg66357:4:106
# text = He took his bamboo stick with all his aid inside and put it under his arm, put on his magic cloak, and said “Aloha.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Aloha	Aloha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | god | god's bamboo stick |  |  |  | with god's aid; inside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | god *not said here* | stick |  | god's arm |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under arm=Destination |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | god *not said here* |  |  | god's magic cloak |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | Aloha *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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