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title: One of the priest-friends leaped into the water, calling for Paao to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the priest-friends leaped into the water, calling for Paao to return and rescue him. 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 61

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One of the priest-friends leaped into the water, calling for Paao to return and rescue him.

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**What happens:** leap, call, return, rescue · **To what, where:** priest friends, water, Paao, One · **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: 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:pg66357:8:61
# text = One of the priest-friends leaped into the water, calling for Paao to return and rescue him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle |  | the priest friends *not said here* |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for Paao | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for paao=Recipient |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rescue** | infinitive |  | Paao |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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