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title: The fine large canoes of the various chiefs with their strong crews… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The fine large canoes of the various chiefs with their strong crews of oarsmen were drawn up in line. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 77

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The fine large canoes of the various chiefs with their strong crews of oarsmen were drawn up in line.

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**What happens:** draw up · **To what, where:** fine large canoes, line

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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: 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:pg66357:9:77
# text = The fine large canoes of the various chiefs with their strong crews of oarsmen were drawn up in line.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crews	crew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	oarsmen	oarsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | the fine large canoes of the various chiefs with chiefs's strong crews of oarsmen |  | line |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in line=Destination |

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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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