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title: As Kiwalao drew near the door all the Maui chiefs prostrated themsel… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: As Kiwalao drew near the door all the Maui chiefs prostrated themselves before him, while the king lazily turned over and partly raised himself, lifting his head in token of friendly greeting. Who acts: Maui chiefs, king. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Reg
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 254

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As Kiwalao drew near the door all the Maui chiefs prostrated themselves before him, while the king lazily turned over and partly raised himself, lifting his head in token of friendly greeting.

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**Who acts:** Maui chiefs, king · **What happens:** draw, prostrate, turn over, raise, lift · **To what, where:** door, kahili, king, head, token

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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 (Maui chiefs, 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:pg66357:14:254
# text = As Kiwalao drew near the door all the Maui chiefs prostrated themselves before him, while the king lazily turned over and partly raised himself, lifting his head in token of friendly greeting.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Kiwalao	Kiwalao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **draw** | past |  |  |  | the door |  | as Kiwalao | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as kiwalao=Attribute |
| 2 | **prostrate** | past | all Maui chiefs | kahili |  |  | before Kiwalao |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn over** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | lazily *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **raise** | past | the king *not said here* | king |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **lift** | gerund | the king *not said here* | king's head |  | token of friendly greeting |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in token=Destination |

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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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