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title: Here he took his calabash of winds and became the god of the winds,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Here he took his calabash of winds and became the god of the winds, opening his calabash and letting breezes or storms escape according to the wishes of the one seeking his aid. Who acts: Laa, breezes, one. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 50

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Here he took his calabash of winds and became the god of the winds, opening his calabash and letting breezes or storms escape according to the wishes of the one seeking his aid.

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**Who acts:** Laa, breezes, one · **What happens:** take, become, open, let, escape, accord · **To what, where:** calabash, god, aid

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laa, breezes, one), 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:pg66357:9:50
# text = Here he took his calabash of winds and became the god of the winds, opening his calabash and letting breezes or storms escape according to the wishes of the one seeking his aid.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Laa | Laa's calabash of winds |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calabash=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Laa *not said here* | the god of the winds |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | Laa *not said here* | Laa's calabash |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location calabash=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | gerund | Laa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord the wishes of the one | tree rules |
| 5 | **escape** | present | breezes or storms |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **seek** | gerund | the one *not said here* | Laa's aid |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme |
| 8 | **wish** |  | the one |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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