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title: A quarrel arose and the Kauai men attempted to take by force the lan… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A quarrel arose and the Kauai men attempted to take by force the lands which their high chief claimed and had promised them. Who acts: quarrel, Kauai men, high chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 31

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A quarrel arose and the Kauai men attempted to take by force the lands which their high chief claimed and had promised them.

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**Who acts:** quarrel, Kauai men, high chief · **What happens:** arise, attempt, take, claim, promise · **To what, where:** lands, chiefs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (quarrel, Kauai men, high chief), 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:pg66357:17:31
# text = A quarrel arose and the Kauai men attempted to take by force the lands which their high chief claimed and had promised them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | a quarrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attempt** | past | the Kauai men |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Kauai men *not said here* | the lands |  |  |  | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | chiefs's high chief | the lands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect |  |  | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=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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