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title: During these years Kalaniopuu had frequently gathered his best compa… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: During these years Kalaniopuu had frequently gathered his best company of warriors and attacked the Maui seacoast. 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 8

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During these years Kalaniopuu had frequently gathered his best company of warriors and attacked the Maui seacoast.

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**What happens:** gather, attack · **To what, where:** Kalaniopuu, Maui seacoast

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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: 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:pg66357:14:8
# text = During these years Kalaniopuu had frequently gathered his best company of warriors and attacked the Maui seacoast.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	Kalaniopuu	Kalaniopuu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	seacoast	seacoast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | Kalaniopuu |  |  | year | Kalaniopuu's best company of warriors *obj*; frequently *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary company=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past |  | the Maui seacoast |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seacoast=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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