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title: The oracle of Ka-o-pulu-pulu uttered at the time of the death of his… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The oracle of Ka-o-pulu-pulu uttered at the time of the death of his son was kept in the hearts of the natives and its method of fulfilment has been noted. Who acts: pulu, natives, son. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependenc
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 58

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The oracle of Ka-o-pulu-pulu uttered at the time of the death of his son was kept in the hearts of the natives and its method of fulfilment has been noted.

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**Who acts:** pulu, natives, son · **What happens:** utter, keep, note, die · **To what, where:** oracle, hearts, method

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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 (pulu, natives, son), 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:pg66357:15:58
# text = The oracle of Ka-o-pulu-pulu uttered at the time of the death of his son was kept in the hearts of the natives and its method of fulfilment has been noted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pulu	pulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pulu	pulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
11	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle | pulu | the oracle of Ka *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oracle=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | past · passive |  | the oracle of Ka |  | the hearts of the natives |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in heart=Location |
| 3 | **note** | present · perfect · passive | the natives *not said here* | death's method of fulfilment |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **die** |  | Ka's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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