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title: “Ka haole nui maka alohilohi (A large foreigner, bright sparkling ey… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ka haole nui maka alohilohi (A large foreigner, bright sparkling eyes) A aholehole maka aa (White cheeks, roguish staring eyes) Ka puaa keokeo nui maka ulaula! A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 4

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“Ka haole nui maka alohilohi (A large foreigner, bright sparkling eyes) A aholehole maka aa (White cheeks, roguish staring eyes) Ka puaa keokeo nui maka ulaula!

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**What happens:** stare · **To what, where:** Ka haole

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. 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:pg66357:15:4
# text = “Ka haole nui maka alohilohi (A large foreigner, bright sparkling eyes) A aholehole maka aa (White cheeks, roguish staring eyes) Ka puaa keokeo nui maka ulaula!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ka	Ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	haole	haole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	nui	nui	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
5	maka	maka	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	alohilohi	alohilohi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	aholehole	aholehole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
18	maka	maka	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	aa	AA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	roguish	roguish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
28	Ka	Ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
29	puaa	puaa	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	amod	_	_
30	keokeo	keokeo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat	_	_
31	nui	nui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
32	maka	maka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	flat:foreign	_	_
33	ulaula	ulaula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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