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title: Perhaps these gods have come that all the evil kupuas [monsters] mig… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps these gods have come that all the evil kupuas [monsters] might be destroyed.” Who acts: gods. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 48

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Perhaps these gods have come that all the evil kupuas \[monsters\] might be destroyed.”

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** come, destroy · **To what, where:** evil kupuas

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods), 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:pg66357:12:48
# text = Perhaps these gods have come that all the evil kupuas [monsters] might be destroyed.”
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kupuas	kupua	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | this gods |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | might · passive |  | all evil kupuas |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «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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