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title: Sometimes they passed through a school of fish, and caught all they… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes they passed through a school of fish, and caught all they could, drying them for future use. 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 76

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Sometimes they passed through a school of fish, and caught all they could, drying them for future use.

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**Who acts:** showers · **What happens:** pass, catch, dry · **To what, where:** school, all, showers

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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:pg66357:8:76
# text = Sometimes they passed through a school of fish, and caught all they could, drying them for future use.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | showers *= shower* |  |  | a school of fish |  | sometimes *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through school=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | showers *= shower* *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | gerund | showers *= shower* *not said here* | showers *= shower* |  |  |  | for future use | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |

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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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