--- title: Moho, putting his hand in his malo, drew out a piece of a broken cal… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: Moho, putting his hand in his malo, drew out a piece of a broken calabash and held it out like the foreigners, saying: “A hikapalale, hikapalale, hioluio, oalaki, walawalaki, waiki, poha, aloha kahiki, aloha haehae, aloha ka wahine, aloha ke keiki, aloha ka hale.” Who acts: Moho. 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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 (Moho), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:12:85 # text = Moho, putting his hand in his malo, drew out a piece of a broken calabash and held it out like the foreigners, saying: “A hikapalale, hikapalale, hioluio, oalaki, walawalaki, waiki, poha, aloha kahiki, aloha haehae, aloha ka wahine, aloha ke keiki, aloha ka hale.” 1 Moho Moho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 malo malo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 calabash calabash NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 foreigners foreigner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hikapalale hikapalale NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 hikapalale hikapalale NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 hioluio hioluio NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 oalaki oalaki NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 walawalaki walawalaki NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 waiki waiki NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 poha poha X FW Foreign=Yes 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 aloha aloha X FW Foreign=Yes 30 conj _ _ 45 kahiki kahiki X FW Foreign=Yes 44 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 aloha aloha X FW Foreign=Yes 30 conj _ _ 48 haehae haehae X FW Foreign=Yes 47 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 aloha aloha NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 51 ka ka X FW Foreign=Yes 52 compound _ _ 52 wahine wahine NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 aloha aloha X FW _ 56 compound _ _ 55 ke ke X FW _ 56 compound _ _ 56 keiki keiki NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 aloha aloha NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 59 ka ka X FW Foreign=Yes 60 advmod _ _ 60 hale hale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ” " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | gerund | Moho *not said here* | Moho's hand | | Moho's malo | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in malo=Destination | | 2 | **draw out** | past | Moho | a piece of a broken calabash | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **hold out** | past | Moho *not said here* | calabash | | | | like the foreigners | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Moho *not said here* | a hikapalale and hikapalale and hioluio and oalaki and walawalaki and waiki and aloha and ka wahine and aloha ke keiki and aloha | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hikapalale=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/86/) - ↑ back to [Captain Cook](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/)