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title: The cession of the Kua-loa lands, with this temple, would be a very… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The cession of the Kua-loa lands, with this temple, would be a very satisfactory partial recompense. Who acts: cession. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 15

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The cession of the Kua-loa lands, with this temple, would be a very satisfactory partial recompense.

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**Who acts:** cession · **What happens:** be, cede · **To what, where:** satisfactory partial recompense, Kua loa lands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cession), 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:pg66357:13:15
# text = The cession of the Kua-loa lands, with this temple, would be a very satisfactory partial recompense.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cession	cession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Kua	Kua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	loa	loa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	partial	partial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	recompense	recompense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | the cession of the Kua loa lands and this temple | a satisfactory partial recompense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cede** |  |  | the Kua loa lands and this temple |  |  |  |  | nom cession «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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