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title: After a time, when the other boats were almost lost to sight, he lau… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time, when the other boats were almost lost to sight, he launched his little canoe, and with his companion, paddled out into the ocean. Who acts: Moi. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 81

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After a time, when the other boats were almost lost to sight, he launched his little canoe, and with his companion, paddled out into the ocean.

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**Who acts:** Moi · **What happens:** lose, launch, paddle out · **To what, where:** other boats, little canoe, ocean

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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), 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:pg66357:9:81
# text = After a time, when the other boats were almost lost to sight, he launched his little canoe, and with his companion, paddled out into the ocean.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	paddled	paddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the other boats |  |  |  | to sight; almost *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **launch** | past | Moi | Moi's little canoe |  |  | time |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
| 3 | **paddle out** | participle | Moi *not said here* |  |  | the ocean |  | with Moi's companion | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ocean=Trajectory |

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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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