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title: He proposed that they sue for peace and that his wife, Ka-lo-la, be… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He proposed that they sue for peace and that his wife, Ka-lo-la, be the messenger to her brother. Who acts: attack, men, Ka. 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 239

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He proposed that they sue for peace and that his wife, Ka-lo-la, be the messenger to her brother.

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**Who acts:** attack, men, Ka · **What happens:** propose, sue, be · **To what, where:** messenger

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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 (attack, men, Ka), 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:pg66357:14:239
# text = He proposed that they sue for peace and that his wife, Ka-lo-la, be the messenger to her brother.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sue	sue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | attack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sue** | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | for peace | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | Ka | the messenger |  |  |  | to wife's brother; attack's wife *advcl* | 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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