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title: Ka-o-pulu-pulu was fully aware of the enmity of his king and the dan… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-o-pulu-pulu was fully aware of the enmity of his king and the danger which attended his yielding obedience. Who acts: Ka, danger. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 41

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Ka-o-pulu-pulu was fully aware of the enmity of his king and the danger which attended his yielding obedience.

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**Who acts:** Ka, danger · **What happens:** be, attend, yield, obey · **To what, where:** yielding obedience

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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: who acts (Ka, danger), 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:pg66357:15:41
# text = Ka-o-pulu-pulu was fully aware of the enmity of his king and the danger which attended his yielding obedience.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pulu	pulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pulu	pulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ka and pulu and pulu |  |  |  |  | of the enmity of Ka's king and the danger; aware, fully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | past | the danger | Ka's yielding obedience |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme obedience=Goal |
| 3 | **yield** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **obey** |  | Ka |  |  |  |  |  | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=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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