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title: CHANT OF KU-ALII (KU—THE CHIEF) — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: CHANT OF KU-ALII (KU—THE CHIEF) 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 80

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CHANT OF KU-ALII (KU—THE CHIEF)

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**What happens:** chant · **To what, where:** CHANT, KU ALII

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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: 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:pg66357:11:80
# text = CHANT OF KU-ALII (KU—THE CHIEF)
1	CHANT	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	KU	KU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ALII	ALII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	KU	KU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	CHIEF	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **chant** |  |  | KU ALII |  |  |  |  | nom chant «communication 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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