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title: He let loose these servants just behind the sail and they pushed the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He let loose these servants just behind the sail and they pushed the canoe forward with incredible rapidity. Who acts: mao, servants. 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 86

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He let loose these servants just behind the sail and they pushed the canoe forward with incredible rapidity.

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**Who acts:** mao, servants · **What happens:** let, push · **To what, where:** loose servants, sail, canoe

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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 (mao, servants), 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:pg66357:9:86
# text = He let loose these servants just behind the sail and they pushed the canoe forward with incredible rapidity.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	incredible	incredible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | mao | this loose servants |  | the sail |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | past | servants *= servant* | the canoe |  |  |  | with incredible rapidity; forward *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |

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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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