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title: Thus they met the wondering natives who hastened along the beach to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus they met the wondering natives who hastened along the beach to the spot where the boats must land. Who acts: people, wondering natives, boats. 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 141

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Thus they met the wondering natives who hastened along the beach to the spot where the boats must land.

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**Who acts:** people, wondering natives, boats · **What happens:** meet, hasten, land · **To what, where:** wondering natives, spot

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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 (people, wondering natives, boats), 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:pg66357:8:141
# text = Thus they met the wondering natives who hastened along the beach to the spot where the boats must land.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wondering	wondering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | people | the wondering natives |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent native=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | the wondering natives |  |  | the spot |  | along the beach | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |
| 3 | **land** | must | the boats |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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