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title: Paao and his friends launched their canoes as fast as possible, plac… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Paao and his friends launched their canoes as fast as possible, placing in them their families and such provisions as were at hand. Who acts: Paao. 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 57

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Paao and his friends launched their canoes as fast as possible, placing in them their families and such provisions as were at hand.

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**Who acts:** Paao · **What happens:** launch, place, be · **To what, where:** canoes, families

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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 (Paao), 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:pg66357:8:57
# text = Paao and his friends launched their canoes as fast as possible, placing in them their families and such provisions as were at hand.
1	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | Paao and Paao's friends | friends's canoes |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | gerund | Paao and Paao's friends *not said here* | canoes's families and such provisions |  |  |  | in canoes *= canoe* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme in they=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as hand | tree rules |

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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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