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title: In transferring Kaiana’s arsenal from Kauai to Hawaii Ka-meha-meha s… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In transferring Kaiana’s arsenal from Kauai to Hawaii Ka-meha-meha secured an advantage over all the other chiefs of the islands. 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 7

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In transferring Kaiana’s arsenal from Kauai to Hawaii Ka-meha-meha secured an advantage over all the other chiefs of the islands.

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**What happens:** transfer, secure · **To what, where:** arsenal, Hawaii Ka, Kauai

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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: 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:pg66357:17:7
# text = In transferring Kaiana’s arsenal from Kauai to Hawaii Ka-meha-meha secured an advantage over all the other chiefs of the islands.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	transferring	transfer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	Kaiana	Kaiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	arsenal	arsenal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
15	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | gerund |  | Kaiana's arsenal | Hawaii Ka | Kauai |  | over all other chiefs of the islands | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent arsenal=Theme from kauai=Initial\_Location to ka=Destination |
| 2 | **secure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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