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title: Thus canoes were prepared capable of carrying thirty to sixty persons. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus canoes were prepared capable of carrying thirty to sixty persons. Who acts: Thus canoes. 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 52

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Thus canoes were prepared capable of carrying thirty to sixty persons.

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**Who acts:** Thus canoes · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** thirty persons

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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 (Thus canoes), 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:pg66357:8:52
# text = Thus canoes were prepared capable of carrying thirty to sixty persons.
1	Thus	thus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Thus canoes |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | Thus canoes *not said here* | thirty persons |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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