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title: At one time, apparently as an offset to the sacred lands which he di… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At one time, apparently as an offset to the sacred lands which he did not get, he asked for the large and fertile tract of land on Molokai known as the lands of Halawa. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tre
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 98

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At one time, apparently as an offset to the sacred lands which he did not get, he asked for the large and fertile tract of land on Molokai known as the lands of Halawa.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** not get, ask, know · **To what, where:** sacred lands, land

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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 (King), 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:pg66357:13:98
# text = At one time, apparently as an offset to the sacred lands which he did not get, he asked for the large and fertile tract of land on Molokai known as the lands of Halawa.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	offset	offset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Molokai	Molokai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Halawa	Halawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | King | the sacred lands |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King |  |  |  | time | for the large tract of land on Molokai | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | land on Molokai *not said here* |  |  |  | as the lands of Halawa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as land=Attribute |

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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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