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title: Thus the contests ended, and thus by a skilful use of Polynesian gam… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the contests ended, and thus by a skilful use of Polynesian games companions were selected for the sons of Kii in their long journey to Hawaii. Who acts: contests. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 199

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Thus the contests ended, and thus by a skilful use of Polynesian games companions were selected for the sons of Kii in their long journey to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** contests · **What happens:** end, select, use, journey · **To what, where:** companions, long journey, Polynesian games

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contests), 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:pg66357:7:199
# text = Thus the contests ended, and thus by a skilful use of Polynesian games companions were selected for the sons of Kii in their long journey to Hawaii.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	contests	contest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Kii	Kii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the contests |  |  |  |  | by a skilful use of Polynesian games; thus *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **select** | past · passive |  | companions |  | contests's long journey to Hawaii |  | for the sons of Kii | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | Polynesian games |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **journey** |  | contests *= contest* |  |  |  |  | to Hawaii | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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