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title: The scouts of Maui had faithfully reported the movements of Ka-lani-… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The scouts of Maui had faithfully reported the movements of Ka-lani-opuu and the coming of the Alapa high chiefs, giving the Maui king time to select and place his allies from Oahu. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 172

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The scouts of Maui had faithfully reported the movements of Ka-lani-opuu and the coming of the Alapa high chiefs, giving the Maui king time to select and place his allies from Oahu.

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**What happens:** report, come, give, select, move · **To what, where:** scouts, allies, Oahu, Ka lani opuu

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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: 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:pg66357:14:172
# text = The scouts of Maui had faithfully reported the movements of Ka-lani-opuu and the coming of the Alapa high chiefs, giving the Maui king time to select and place his allies from Oahu.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scouts	scout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lani	lani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	opuu	opuu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Alapa	Alapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · perfect · passive |  | the scouts of Maui |  |  |  | the movements of Ka lani opuu *obj*; faithfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the Alapa high chiefs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of chief=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | Maui's allies |  | Oahu | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Theme |
| 4 | **select** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **move** |  |  | Ka lani opuu |  |  |  |  | nom movement «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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