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title: He fulfilled Carlyle’s definition of “King”—“König,” “the man who ca… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He fulfilled Carlyle’s definition of “King”—“König,” “the man who can”—the man who, after the battle, would be “lifted upon his comrades’ shields and hailed as hero.” Who acts: Ka, Carlyle. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 43

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He fulfilled Carlyle’s definition of “King”—“König,” “the man who can”—the man who, after the battle, would be “lifted upon his comrades’ shields and hailed as hero.”

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**Who acts:** Ka, Carlyle · **What happens:** fulfil, lift, hail, define · **To what, where:** definition, man, shields, King

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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 (Ka, Carlyle), 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:pg66357:14:43
# text = He fulfilled Carlyle’s definition of “King”—“König,” “the man who can”—the man who, after the battle, would be “lifted upon his comrades’ shields and hailed as hero.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Carlyle	Carlyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	definition	definition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	König	König	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	hailed	hail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | past | Ka | Carlyle's definition of King |  |  |  | König *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** *in a quote* | would · passive |  | the man |  | Ka's comrades's shields |  | the battle *nsubj:pass* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon shield=Destination |
| 3 | **hail** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as hero | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hero=Attribute |
| 4 | **define** |  | Carlyle | King |  |  |  |  | nom definition «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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