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title: The canoe-men hurriedly arranged mats covering the boats, and the wa… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The canoe-men hurriedly arranged mats covering the boats, and the water was turned into the sea. Who acts: canoe men, mats. 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 72

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The canoe-men hurriedly arranged mats covering the boats, and the water was turned into the sea.

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**Who acts:** canoe men, mats · **What happens:** arrange, cover, turn · **To what, where:** mats, boats, water, sea

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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 (canoe men, mats), 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:pg66357:8:72
# text = The canoe-men hurriedly arranged mats covering the boats, and the water was turned into the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past | the canoe men | mats |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=Product |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | mats *not said here* | the boats |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boat=Destination |
| 3 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the water |  | the sea |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory |

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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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