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title: Pili journeyed with, what the legend called, a “cloud of boats.” — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Pili journeyed with, what the legend called, a “cloud of boats.” Who acts: Pili. 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 219

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Pili journeyed with, what the legend called, a “cloud of boats.”

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**Who acts:** Pili · **What happens:** journey, call, cloud · **To what, where:** legend, boats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pili), 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:pg66357:8:219
# text = Pili journeyed with, what the legend called, a “cloud of boats.”
1	Pili	Pili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | Pili |  |  |  |  | what  the legend *obj*; a cloud of boats *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the legend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 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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