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title: They called their vikings—Ka-poe-holo-kahiki, The People Sailing to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They called their vikings—Ka-poe-holo-kahiki, The People Sailing to Tahiti. Who acts: groups, Ka, People. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 32

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They called their vikings—Ka-poe-holo-kahiki, The People Sailing to Tahiti.

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**Who acts:** groups, Ka, People · **What happens:** call, kahiki, sail · **To what, where:** vikings, Tahiti · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groups, Ka, People), 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:pg66357:6:32
# text = They called their vikings—Ka-poe-holo-kahiki, The People Sailing to Tahiti.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	vikings	viking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	poe	poe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	holo	holo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	kahiki	kahiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
16	Sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | groups *= group* | groups's vikings |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent viking=Recipient |
| 2 | **kahiki** |  | Ka |  |  |  |  | the People *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | gerund | the People *not said here* |  |  | Tahiti |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to tahiti=Trajectory |

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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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