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title: Instead of the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia, the sons of Kii probably made their way to the new Hawaii and there founded two races of kings. Who acts: kings. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 203

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Instead of the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia, the sons of Kii probably made their way to the new Hawaii and there founded two races of kings.

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**Who acts:** kings · **What happens:** make, found, race · **To what, where:** way, two races

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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 (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:pg66357:7:203
# text = Instead of the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia, the sons of Kii probably made their way to the new Hawaii and there founded two races of kings.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kii	Kii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | sons's way |  |  |  | instead the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia; to the new Hawaii; probably *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 2 | **found** | participle |  | two races of kings |  | there |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient |
| 3 | **race** |  | kings |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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