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title: While still a child, he was sent to Maui to pass the years of his yo… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: While still a child, he was sent to Maui to pass the years of his young manhood in close contact with one of the most noted courts among the different island kings—the court of his relative, Kahekili. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with it
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 3

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While still a child, he was sent to Maui to pass the years of his young manhood in close contact with one of the most noted courts among the different island kings—the court of his relative, Kahekili.

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**What happens:** send, pass, note · **To what, where:** Kahahana, Maui, close contact

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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: 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:pg66357:13:3
# text = While still a child, he was sent to Maui to pass the years of his young manhood in close contact with one of the most noted courts among the different island kings—the court of his relative, Kahekili.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | Kahahana | Maui |  |  | a child *advcl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to maui=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | close contact with one of the noted courts | year | among the different island kings | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in contact=Location |
| 3 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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