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title: Moi-keha had only a small canoe prepared which still lay on the shor… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Moi-keha had only a small canoe prepared which still lay on the shore under the care of one of his comrades from Tahiti. Who acts: Moi, small canoe. 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 78

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Moi-keha had only a small canoe prepared which still lay on the shore under the care of one of his comrades from Tahiti.

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**Who acts:** Moi, small canoe · **What happens:** have, prepare, lay · **To what, where:** small canoe, shore

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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 (Moi, small canoe), 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:pg66357:9:78
# text = Moi-keha had only a small canoe prepared which still lay on the shore under the care of one of his comrades from Tahiti.
1	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Moi | a small canoe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  | a small canoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lay** | present | a small canoe |  |  | the shore | still | under the care of one of Moi's comrades from Tahiti | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=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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