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title: Meanwhile the king of Maui, Kahekili, seemed to be far more successf… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the king of Maui, Kahekili, seemed to be far more successful in extending the boundaries over which he exercised rule. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 3

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Meanwhile the king of Maui, Kahekili, seemed to be far more successful in extending the boundaries over which he exercised rule.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** seem, be, extend, exercise · **To what, where:** boundaries, rule

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg66357:16:3
# text = Meanwhile the king of Maui, Kahekili, seemed to be far more successful in extending the boundaries over which he exercised rule.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the king of Maui and Kahekili |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the king of Maui and Kahekili *not said here* |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **extend** | gerund | the king of Maui and Kahekili *not said here* | the boundaries |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent boundary=Theme |
| 4 | **exercise** | past | king | rule |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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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