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title: The descendants of Ulu ruled the larger southern islands until overt… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The descendants of Ulu ruled the larger southern islands until overthrown in the eleventh century by Paao on the Island of Hawaii. Who acts: descendants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 204

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The descendants of Ulu ruled the larger southern islands until overthrown in the eleventh century by Paao on the Island of Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** descendants · **What happens:** rule, overthrow · **To what, where:** larger southern islands, Island

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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 (descendants), 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:pg66357:7:204
# text = The descendants of Ulu ruled the larger southern islands until overthrown in the eleventh century by Paao on the Island of Hawaii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | the descendants of Ulu | the larger southern islands |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
| 2 | **overthrow** | participle | the descendants of Ulu *not said here* |  |  | the Island of Hawaii | century | by Paao | tree rules |

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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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