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title: Laa-mao-mao was in the canoe with him, holding strong winds in his c… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Laa-mao-mao was in the canoe with him, holding strong winds in his calabash. Who acts: Laa mao mao, 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 85

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Laa-mao-mao was in the canoe with him, holding strong winds in his calabash.

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**Who acts:** Laa mao mao, canoe · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** canoe, strong winds, calabash

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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 mao mao, 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:pg66357:9:85
# text = Laa-mao-mao was in the canoe with him, holding strong winds in his calabash.
1	Laa	laa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	mao	mao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	mao	mao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
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	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Laa mao mao |  |  | the canoe |  | with Moi | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the canoe *not said here* | strong winds |  | Moi's calabash |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme in calabash=Location |

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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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