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title: Lonopele ordered his magic bird to take up great waves of water and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lonopele ordered his magic bird to take up great waves of water and pour them from the sky, overwhelming the fugitives. Who acts: Lonopele. 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 71

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Lonopele ordered his magic bird to take up great waves of water and pour them from the sky, overwhelming the fugitives.

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**Who acts:** Lonopele · **What happens:** order, take up, pour, overwhelm, wave · **To what, where:** magic bird, great waves, waves, sky, fugitives, water

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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 (Lonopele), 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:pg66357:8:71
# text = Lonopele ordered his magic bird to take up great waves of water and pour them from the sky, overwhelming the fugitives.
1	Lonopele	Lonopele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	overwhelming	overwhelm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Lonopele |  | Lonopele's magic bird |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lonopele *not said here* | great waves of water |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | infinitive | Lonopele *not said here* | waves *= wave* |  | the sky |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **overwhelm** | gerund | Lonopele *not said here* | the fugitives |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fugitive=Experiencer |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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