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title: “Make haste or you will be too late to hear the voice of the king.” — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Make haste or you will be too late to hear the voice of the king.” Who acts: you. 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 30

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“Make haste or you will be too late to hear the voice of the king.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, be, hear · **To what, where:** haste, voice

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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 (you), 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:pg66357:7:30
# text = “Make haste or you will be too late to hear the voice of the king.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the voice of the king |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |

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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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