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title: These white citizens came to the islands in the reign of Ke-alii-o-k… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: These white citizens came to the islands in the reign of Ke-alii-o-ka-loa, who was born about A.D. Who acts: white citizens. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 25

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These white citizens came to the islands in the reign of Ke-alii-o-ka-loa, who was born about A.D.

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**Who acts:** white citizens · **What happens:** come, bear · **To what, where:** islands, ka loa

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white citizens), 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:pg66357:11:25
# text = These white citizens came to the islands in the reign of Ke-alii-o-ka-loa, who was born about A.D.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ke	Ke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	alii	alii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ka	ka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	loa	loa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this white citizens |  |  | the islands in the reign of Ke and alii |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | ka loa |  |  |  | about A.D | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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