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title: On the beach he found a canoe left by his younger brother who had ju… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: On the beach he found a canoe left by his younger brother who had just landed and hastened inland to try to save his family. Who acts: wali, younger brother. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 83

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On the beach he found a canoe left by his younger brother who had just landed and hastened inland to try to save his family.

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**Who acts:** wali, younger brother · **What happens:** find, leave, land, hasten, try, save · **To what, where:** canoe, beach, family

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wali, younger brother), 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:pg66516:10:83
# text = On the beach he found a canoe left by his younger brother who had just landed and hastened inland to try to save his family.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | wali | a canoe |  | the beach |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a canoe *not said here* |  |  |  | by wali's younger brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by brother=Location |
| 3 | **land** | past · perfect | wali's younger brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hasten** | participle | wali's younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | wali's younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wali's younger brother *not said here* | wali's family |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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