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title: The warriors went up into the mountains to find the Kauila—the spear… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The warriors went up into the mountains to find the Kauila—the spear tree—that they might cut down and dry the wood for spears and war clubs and daggers. Who acts: warriors, mountains. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and t
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 55

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The warriors went up into the mountains to find the Kauila—the spear tree—that they might cut down and dry the wood for spears and war clubs and daggers.

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**Who acts:** warriors, mountains · **What happens:** go up, find, cut down, dry · **To what, where:** mountains, Kauila, wood

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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 (warriors, mountains), 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:pg66357:14:55
# text = The warriors went up into the mountains to find the Kauila—the spear tree—that they might cut down and dry the wood for spears and war clubs and daggers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Kauila	Kauila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	daggers	dagger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | the warriors |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | the warriors *not said here* | the Kauila |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kauila=Topic |
| 3 | **cut down** | might | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dry** | infinitive | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* | the wood |  |  |  | for spears and war clubs and daggers | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wood=Result |

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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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