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title: Sometimes showers fell upon the mats arranged like funnels, filling… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes showers fell upon the mats arranged like funnels, filling the water calabashes afresh. Who acts: showers. 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 75

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Sometimes showers fell upon the mats arranged like funnels, filling the water calabashes afresh.

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**Who acts:** showers · **What happens:** fall, arrange, fill · **To what, where:** mats, water calabashes

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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 (showers), 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:pg66357:8:75
# text = Sometimes showers fell upon the mats arranged like funnels, filling the water calabashes afresh.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	funnels	funnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	calabashes	calabash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | showers |  |  | the mats |  | sometimes *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon mat=Location |
| 2 | **arrange** | participle |  | the mats *not said here* |  |  |  | like funnels | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | showers *not said here* | the water calabashes |  |  |  | afresh *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent calabash=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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