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title: When Ka-eo-ku-lani, chief of Kauai, climbed the hills above the seap… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ka-eo-ku-lani, chief of Kauai, climbed the hills above the seaport he carried his war spear. Who acts: Ka, god. 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 41

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When Ka-eo-ku-lani, chief of Kauai, climbed the hills above the seaport he carried his war spear.

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**Who acts:** Ka, god · **What happens:** climb, carry · **To what, where:** hills, seaport, war spear

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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 (Ka, god), 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:pg66357:17:41
# text = When Ka-eo-ku-lani, chief of Kauai, climbed the hills above the seaport he carried his war spear.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
2	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eo	eo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	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	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seaport	seaport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Ka  ku lani | the hills |  | the seaport |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | god | god's war spear |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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