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title: The natives called the flash from the guns “Ka huila” (lightning) an… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The natives called the flash from the guns “Ka huila” (lightning) and “Kane-hikili” (thunder of the god Kane). Who acts: natives, god. 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 72

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The natives called the flash from the guns “Ka huila” (lightning) and “Kane-hikili” (thunder of the god Kane).

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**Who acts:** natives, god · **What happens:** call, thunder · **To what, where:** flash, guns, natives · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (natives, god), 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:pg66357:12:72
# text = The natives called the flash from the guns “Ka huila” (lightning) and “Kane-hikili” (thunder of the god Kane).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	huila	huila	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	hikili	hikili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | the natives *not said here* | the flash |  | the guns  Ka huila and Kane hikili |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flash=Theme from gun=Source |
| 3 | **thunder** |  | the god |  |  |  |  |  | nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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