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title: Fornander suggests that his older brother, Kahekili, king of Oahu, m… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Fornander suggests that his older brother, Kahekili, king of Oahu, might have agreed to give him land or even the island as a reward. Who acts: Fornander, older brother. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 28

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Fornander suggests that his older brother, Kahekili, king of Oahu, might have agreed to give him land or even the island as a reward.

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**Who acts:** Fornander, older brother · **What happens:** suggest, agree, give · **To what, where:** land, Fornander

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fornander, older brother), 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:pg66357:17:28
# text = Fornander suggests that his older brother, Kahekili, king of Oahu, might have agreed to give him land or even the island as a reward.
1	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Fornander |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | might · perfect | Fornander's older brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fornander's older brother *not said here* | land or the island | Fornander |  |  | as a reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient land=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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