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description: The year after the Battle of the Sand-Hills, Kahekili found an opportunity for making his next move. Who acts: year, opportunity, Kahekili. 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 89

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The year after the Battle of the Sand-Hills, Kahekili found an opportunity for making his next move.

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**Who acts:** year, opportunity, Kahekili · **What happens:** find, make, move · **To what, where:** opportunity, next move

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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 (year, opportunity, Kahekili), 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:pg66357:13:89
# text = The year after the Battle of the Sand-Hills, Kahekili found an opportunity for making his next move.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Sand	Sand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **find** | past | the year after the Battle of the Sand Hills and Kahekili | a opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | Kahekili's next move |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset move=Product |
| 3 | **move** |  | Kahekili |  |  |  |  |  | nom move «act intransitive»: poss=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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