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title: The descendants of Nanaulu ruled the northern islands until a few ye… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The descendants of Nanaulu ruled the northern islands until a few years after Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian group and called it “The Sandwich Islands.” Who acts: descendants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 205

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The descendants of Nanaulu ruled the northern islands until a few years after Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian group and called it “The Sandwich Islands.”

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**Who acts:** descendants · **What happens:** rule, discover, call · **To what, where:** northern islands, Hawaiian group, race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg66357:7:205
# text = The descendants of Nanaulu ruled the northern islands until a few years after Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian group and called it “The Sandwich Islands.”
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	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	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	8	det	_	_
7	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	until	until	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	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 Nanaulu | the northern islands |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | past |  | the Hawaiian group |  |  | after Captain Cook |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | past |  | race |  |  |  | the Sandwich Islands *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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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