---
title: Solomon, the wise, and King Hiram, the Phœnician, sent fleets on voy… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Solomon, the wise, and King Hiram, the Phœnician, sent fleets on voyages of long duration. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/11/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [First Foreigners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/11/) / 4

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Solomon, the wise, and King Hiram, the Phœnician, sent fleets on voyages of long duration.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** send, fleet, voyage · **To what, where:** voyages, Solomon, long duration

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:11:4
# text = Solomon, the wise, and King Hiram, the Phœnician, sent fleets on voyages of long duration.
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	Hiram	Hiram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Phœnician	phœnician	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fleet** |  | King |  |  | voyages of long duration |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **voyage** |  |  | long duration |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/11/3/)
- next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/11/5/)
- ↑ back to [First Foreigners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/11/)