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title: Aukele swam to the beach, pulled up his stick, found his cloak and l… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Aukele swam to the beach, pulled up his stick, found his cloak and lay down under a tree and slept. Who acts: Aukele. 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 33

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Aukele swam to the beach, pulled up his stick, found his cloak and lay down under a tree and slept.

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**Who acts:** Aukele · **What happens:** swim, pull up, find, lay down, sleep · **To what, where:** beach, stick, cloak, tree

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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 (Aukele), 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:pg66357:4:33
# text = Aukele swam to the beach, pulled up his stick, found his cloak and lay down under a tree and slept.
1	Aukele	Aukele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | Aukele |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to beach=Destination |
| 2 | **pull up** | past | Aukele *not said here* | leaf's stick |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | leaf's cloak |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Topic |
| 4 | **lay down** | infinitive |  |  |  | a tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under tree=Destination |
| 5 | **sleep** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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