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title: The old astrologer and sailor, Kama-hua-lele, who had come from Tahi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The old astrologer and sailor, Kama-hua-lele, who had come from Tahiti with Moi-keha, was selected to be the guardian of the young chiefs and pilot of the expedition. Who acts: Kama hua lele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 30

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The old astrologer and sailor, Kama-hua-lele, who had come from Tahiti with Moi-keha, was selected to be the guardian of the young chiefs and pilot of the expedition.

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**Who acts:** Kama hua lele · **What happens:** come, select, be · **To what, where:** Tahiti, old astrologer, guardian

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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 (Kama hua lele), 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:pg66357:10:30
# text = The old astrologer and sailor, Kama-hua-lele, who had come from Tahiti with Moi-keha, was selected to be the guardian of the young chiefs and pilot of the expedition.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hua	hua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	lele	lele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Kama hua lele |  |  | Tahiti |  | with Moi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tahiti=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **select** | past · passive |  | the old astrologer and sailor and Kama hua lele |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the guardian |  |  |  | of the young chiefs and pilot of the expedition | tree rules |

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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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