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title: About 1760 Kalaniopuu attacked the southern coast of Maui and captur… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: About 1760 Kalaniopuu attacked the southern coast of Maui and captured the famous fort of Kau-wiki. Who acts: Kalaniopuu. 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 6

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About 1760 Kalaniopuu attacked the southern coast of Maui and captured the famous fort of Kau-wiki.

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**Who acts:** Kalaniopuu · **What happens:** attack, capture · **To what, where:** 1760, famous fort

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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 (Kalaniopuu), 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:pg66357:14:6
# text = About 1760 Kalaniopuu attacked the southern coast of Maui and captured the famous fort of Kau-wiki.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1760	1760	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	Kalaniopuu	Kalaniopuu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Kau	Kau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	wiki	wiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | past | Kalaniopuu | 1760 |  |  |  | the southern coast of Maui *obj* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |
| 2 | **capture** | past | Kalaniopuu *not said here* | the famous fort of Kau wiki |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=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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