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title: Sails of dyed kapa cloth and woven matting, new and beautifully pain… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sails of dyed kapa cloth and woven matting, new and beautifully painted, had been made ready long before, that Nanaulu’s homecoming might have no blot upon its impressive appearance. Who acts: homecoming. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its depe
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 76

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Sails of dyed kapa cloth and woven matting, new and beautifully painted, had been made ready long before, that Nanaulu’s homecoming might have no blot upon its impressive appearance.

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**Who acts:** homecoming · **What happens:** weave, mat, paint, make, have · **To what, where:** Sails, new, blot

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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 (homecoming), 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:pg66357:7:76
# text = Sails of dyed kapa cloth and woven matting, new and beautifully painted, had been made ready long before, that Nanaulu’s homecoming might have no blot upon its impressive appearance.
1	Sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	dyed	dyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	kapa	kapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	matting	mat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	homecoming	homecoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	blot	blot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	impressive	impressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **weave** | participle · passive |  | Sails of dyed kapa cloth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **mat** | gerund |  | new |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **paint** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | before, ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 5 | **have** | might | Nanaulu's homecoming | no blot |  |  |  | upon sail's impressive appearance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blot=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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