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title: The decisive battle was soon fought and Kahekili secured control ove… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The decisive battle was soon fought and Kahekili secured control over Oahu. Who acts: Kahekili. 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 56

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The decisive battle was soon fought and Kahekili secured control over Oahu.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili · **What happens:** fight, secure · **To what, where:** decisive battle, control, Oahu

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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 (Kahekili), 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:pg66357:15:56
# text = The decisive battle was soon fought and Kahekili secured control over Oahu.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	decisive	decisive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · passive |  | the decisive battle |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **secure** | past | Kahekili | control |  | Oahu |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition control=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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