--- title: Here Ka-eo-ku-lani, the chief of Kauai, took the leadership of the e… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: Here Ka-eo-ku-lani, the chief of Kauai, took the leadership of the expedition and, looking upon Maui as redeemed from the victorious inroad of Ka-meha-meha, assumed the island as one of his perquisites of the campaign. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:17:27 # text = Here Ka-eo-ku-lani, the chief of Kauai, took the leadership of the expedition and, looking upon Maui as redeemed from the victorious inroad of Ka-meha-meha, assumed the island as one of his perquisites of the campaign. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 2 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 eo eo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ku ku NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 lani lani NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Kauai Kauai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 leadership leadership NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 expedition expedition NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Maui Maui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 redeemed redeem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 victorious victorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 inroad inroad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 meha meha X FW Foreign=Yes 33 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 meha meha X FW Foreign=Yes 35 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 assumed assume VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 perquisites perquisite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the chief of Kauai | the leadership of the expedition | | here | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leadership=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | the chief of Kauai *not said here* | | | | | upon Maui | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon maui=Theme | | 3 | **redeem** | participle | the chief of Kauai *not said here* | | | the victorious inroad | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from inroad=Source | | 4 | **assume** | past | the chief of Kauai *not said here* | the island | | | | as one of lani's perquisites of the campaign | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/28/) - ↑ back to [The Red Mouth Gun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/)