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title: Both King George and King Kalaniopuu were equally obstinate in the d… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Both King George and King Kalaniopuu were equally obstinate in the determination to rule the lands across the waters. Who acts: George. 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 53

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Both King George and King Kalaniopuu were equally obstinate in the determination to rule the lands across the waters.

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** be, rule · **To what, where:** determination, lands, waters

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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 (George), 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:pg66357:14:53
# text = Both King George and King Kalaniopuu were equally obstinate in the determination to rule the lands across the waters.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Kalaniopuu	Kalaniopuu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | George  King and King |  |  | the determination |  | equally, obstinate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** | to-infinitive | George  King and King *not said here* | the lands |  | the waters |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

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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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