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title: The Kauai chiefs were never able to again lay any claim to Maui. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kauai chiefs were never able to again lay any claim to Maui. Who acts: Kauai chiefs. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 36

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The Kauai chiefs were never able to again lay any claim to Maui.

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**Who acts:** Kauai chiefs · **What happens:** not be, lay · **To what, where:** claim

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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 (Kauai chiefs), 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:pg66357:17:36
# text = The Kauai chiefs were never able to again lay any claim to Maui.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the Kauai chiefs |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | the Kauai chiefs *not said here* | any claim |  |  | again | to Maui | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result |

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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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