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title: Moi-keha sailed away from the Hawaiian Islands with his brother Olop… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Moi-keha sailed away from the Hawaiian Islands with his brother Olopana and his nephew Laa. Who acts: Moi keha. 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 6

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Moi-keha sailed away from the Hawaiian Islands with his brother Olopana and his nephew Laa.

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**Who acts:** Moi keha · **What happens:** sail away · **To what, where:** Hawaiian Islands

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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 (Moi keha), 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:pg66357:10:6
# text = Moi-keha sailed away from the Hawaiian Islands with his brother Olopana and his nephew Laa.
1	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	keha	keha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	Olopana	Olopana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail away** | past | Moi keha |  |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  | with keha's brother; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from island=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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