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title: In the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu Honua, “the first created,” there… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu Honua, “the first created,” there is a part devoted to Hawaii-loa, the first sea-king of the Polynesians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 15

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In the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu Honua, “the first created,” there is a part devoted to Hawaii-loa, the first sea-king of the Polynesians.

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**What happens:** create, be, devote, chant · **To what, where:** first, part, long Hawaiian chant, Hawaii loa, Kumu

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. 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:pg66357:5:15
# text = In the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu Honua, “the first created,” there is a part devoted to Hawaii-loa, the first sea-king of the Polynesians.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kumu	Kumu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Honua	Honua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	loa	loa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | the first |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a part |  | the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu |  | the first sea king of the Polynesians *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **devote** | participle |  | a part *not said here* |  |  |  | to Hawaii loa *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to loa=Goal |
| 4 | **chant** |  |  | Kumu |  |  |  |  | nom chant «communication transitive»: of=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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