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title: The multitude of canoes following were painted and stained with as m… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The multitude of canoes following were painted and stained with as many brilliant dyes as possible. Who acts: canoes. 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 74

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The multitude of canoes following were painted and stained with as many brilliant dyes as possible.

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**Who acts:** canoes · **What happens:** follow, paint, stain · **To what, where:** multitude

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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 (canoes), 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:pg66357:7:74
# text = The multitude of canoes following were painted and stained with as many brilliant dyes as possible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund | canoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** | past · passive |  | the multitude of canoes |  |  |  | with many brilliant dyes | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dye=Theme |
| 3 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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