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title: King Kalakaua relates the amplified legend and chant in his “Myths a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: King Kalakaua relates the amplified legend and chant in his “Myths and Legends of Hawaii,” and in imagination pictures some of the battles fought and trades made for the possession of the iron knife. Who acts: King, Myths. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreig
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 43

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King Kalakaua relates the amplified legend and chant in his “Myths and Legends of Hawaii,” and in imagination pictures some of the battles fought and trades made for the possession of the iron knife.

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**Who acts:** King, Myths · **What happens:** relate, amplify, fight, trade, make, possess · **To what, where:** amplified legend, iron knife

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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 (King, Myths), 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:pg66357:11:43
# text = King Kalakaua relates the amplified legend and chant in his “Myths and Legends of Hawaii,” and in imagination pictures some of the battles fought and trades made for the possession of the iron knife.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Kalakaua	Kalakaua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	amplified	amplify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	trades	trade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | King | the amplified legend and chant |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Theme |
| 2 | **amplify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fight** | past | King's Myths and Legends of Hawaii |  |  |  |  | imagination pictures *nsubj* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **trade** | present | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the possession of the iron knife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for possession=Asset |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | the iron knife |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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