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title: “E Taunoa,” cried a chief to the two latest arrivals, calling one of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “E Taunoa,” cried a chief to the two latest arrivals, calling one of them by the name of his district. Who acts: Taunoa. 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 29

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“E Taunoa,” cried a chief to the two latest arrivals, calling one of them by the name of his district.

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**Who acts:** Taunoa · **What happens:** cry, call, name · **To what, where:** chief, two latest arrivals, one, district · **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 (Taunoa), 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:pg66357:7:29
# text = “E Taunoa,” cried a chief to the two latest arrivals, calling one of them by the name of his district.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	E	e	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	Taunoa	Taunoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	latest	latest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	arrivals	arrival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Taunoa | a chief | the two latest arrivals |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Topic to arrival=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Taunoa *not said here* | one of chiefs |  |  |  | by the name of Taunoa's district | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Taunoa's district |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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