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title: Kila sailed from island to island until at last he left the high mou… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kila sailed from island to island until at last he left the high mountains of the island Hawaii and sailed away to the South. Who acts: Kila. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 31

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Kila sailed from island to island until at last he left the high mountains of the island Hawaii and sailed away to the South.

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**Who acts:** Kila · **What happens:** sail, leave, sail away · **To what, where:** island, high mountains, last, South

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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 (Kila), 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:pg66357:10:31
# text = Kila sailed from island to island until at last he left the high mountains of the island Hawaii and sailed away to the South.
1	Kila	Kila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | Kila |  |  | island |  | to island | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from island=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Kila | the high mountains of the island Hawaii |  | last |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme at last=Location |
| 3 | **sail away** | past | Kila *not said here* |  |  | the South |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to south=Trajectory |

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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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