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title: Two prisoners were held at the prow of the boat, two at the stern, f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Two prisoners were held at the prow of the boat, two at the stern, four along the boat sides and others in a line extending to the beach. Who acts: line. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 18

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Two prisoners were held at the prow of the boat, two at the stern, four along the boat sides and others in a line extending to the beach.

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**Who acts:** line · **What happens:** hold, extend · **To what, where:** Two prisoners, prow, beach

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (line), 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:pg66357:7:18
# text = Two prisoners were held at the prow of the boat, two at the stern, four along the boat sides and others in a line extending to the beach.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
27	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | Two prisoners |  | the prow of the boat |  | along the boat sides and others; in a line | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at prow=Location |
| 2 | **extend** | gerund | a line *not said here* |  | the beach |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beach=Recipient |

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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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