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title: Taunoa replied: “We shall soon see Nanaulu with a cloud of boats. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Taunoa replied: “We shall soon see Nanaulu with a cloud of boats. Who acts: Taunoa, We. 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 32

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Taunoa replied: “We shall soon see Nanaulu with a cloud of boats.

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**Who acts:** Taunoa, We · **What happens:** reply, see, cloud · **To what, where:** Nanaulu, boats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Taunoa, We), 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:pg66357:7:32
# text = Taunoa replied: “We shall soon see Nanaulu with a cloud of boats.
1	Taunoa	Taunoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Taunoa |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | We | Nanaulu |  |  |  | with a cloud of boats; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nanaulu=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cloud** *in a quote* |  |  | boats |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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