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title: They agreed to prepare their large canoes, and go with him, seeking… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They agreed to prepare their large canoes, and go with him, seeking the “Burning-Java,” or Hawaii, somewhere toward the north. Who acts: friends. 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 49

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They agreed to prepare their large canoes, and go with him, seeking the “Burning-Java,” or Hawaii, somewhere toward the north.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** agree, prepare, go, seek · **To what, where:** large canoes, Burning Java · **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 (friends), 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:pg66357:8:49
# text = They agreed to prepare their large canoes, and go with him, seeking the “Burning-Java,” or Hawaii, somewhere toward the north.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Java	java	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
26	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | Hawaii *conj*; somewhere *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **prepare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | friends's large canoes |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Paao | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund |  | the Burning Java |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent java=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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