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title: It was in this year that King George’s dark-skinned brother in ambit… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in this year that King George’s dark-skinned brother in ambition, Ka-lani-opuu, set sail with “a cloud of boats.” Who acts: world. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 138

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It was in this year that King George’s dark-skinned brother in ambition, Ka-lani-opuu, set sail with “a cloud of boats.”

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** be, cloud · **To what, where:** boats

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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:pg66357:14:138
# text = It was in this year that King George’s dark-skinned brother in ambition, Ka-lani-opuu, set sail with “a cloud of boats.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	skinned	skinned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	lani	lani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	opuu	opuu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | world |  |  |  | in this year | George  King's skinned brother in ambition and Ka lani opuu *advcl*; set sail with a cloud of boats *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cloud** *in a quote* |  |  | boats |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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