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title: Watch if she strikes with a stick, then run quickly, sit in her lap,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch if she strikes with a stick, then run quickly, sit in her lap, and tell her who you are.” Who acts: you, woman. 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 141

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Watch if she strikes with a stick, then run quickly, sit in her lap, and tell her who you are.”

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**Who acts:** you, woman · **What happens:** watch, strike, run, sit, tell, be · **To what, where:** lap, woman · **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 (you, woman), 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:pg66357:4:141
# text = Watch if she strikes with a stick, then run quickly, sit in her lap, and tell her who you are.”
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strike** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | woman |  |  |  |  | with a stick | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stick=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | infinitive |  |  |  | woman's lap |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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