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title: This battle received the name in Hawaiian history—“The furious destr… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This battle received the name in Hawaiian history—“The furious destruction at Kakanilua”—Kakanilua was the name of the sand hills below Wai-luku. Who acts: battle, Kakanilua. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 208

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This battle received the name in Hawaiian history—“The furious destruction at Kakanilua”—Kakanilua was the name of the sand hills below Wai-luku.

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**Who acts:** battle, Kakanilua · **What happens:** receive, be · **To what, where:** name, Hawaiian history

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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 (battle, Kakanilua), 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:pg66357:14:208
# text = This battle received the name in Hawaiian history—“The furious destruction at Kakanilua”—Kakanilua was the name of the sand hills below Wai-luku.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kakanilua	Kakanilua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Kakanilua	Kakanilua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	below	below	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | this battle | the name |  | Hawaiian history |  | the furious destruction at Kakanilua *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kakanilua | the name |  |  |  | of the sand hills | tree rules |

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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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