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title: The Kauai and Oahu kings fled with their scattered fleets to Maui. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kauai and Oahu kings fled with their scattered fleets to Maui. Who acts: Kauai kings. 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 82

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The Kauai and Oahu kings fled with their scattered fleets to Maui.

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**Who acts:** Kauai kings · **What happens:** flee

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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 kings), 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:pg66357:17:82
# text = The Kauai and Oahu kings fled with their scattered fleets to Maui.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	10	amod	_	_
10	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | the Kauai kings |  |  |  |  | with gunners's scattered fleets to Maui | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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