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title: Moi-keha was held back from longed-for sea journeys by the cares of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Moi-keha was held back from longed-for sea journeys by the cares of his kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home. Who acts: kingdom, prosperous home. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 20

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Moi-keha was held back from longed-for sea journeys by the cares of his kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home.

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**Who acts:** kingdom, prosperous home · **What happens:** hold back, long, care, delight · **To what, where:** Moi

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, prosperous home), 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:pg66357:10:20
# text = Moi-keha was held back from longed-for sea journeys by the cares of his kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home.
1	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cares	care	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	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	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	restful	restful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold back** | past · passive |  | Moi |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **long** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for sea journeys; by the cares of Moi's kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for journey=Theme |
| 3 | **care** |  | Moi's kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **delight** |  | a prosperous home |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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