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title: In a moment shouts and songs of gladness were heard from all the can… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment shouts and songs of gladness were heard from all the canoes. Who acts: gladness. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 124

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In a moment shouts and songs of gladness were heard from all the canoes.

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**Who acts:** gladness · **What happens:** shout, hear, sing · **To what, where:** songs, canoes

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gladness), 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:pg66357:8:124
# text = In a moment shouts and songs of gladness were heard from all the canoes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  | moment |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | songs of gladness |  | all canoes |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from canoe=Source |
| 3 | **sing** |  | gladness |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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