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title: Nanaulu, the elder brother, was the kahu (caretaker) of Ulu in the d… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Nanaulu, the elder brother, was the kahu (caretaker) of Ulu in the days past. Who acts: Nanaulu. 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 49

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Nanaulu, the elder brother, was the kahu (caretaker) of Ulu in the days past.

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**Who acts:** Nanaulu · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kahu

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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 (Nanaulu), 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:pg66357:7:49
# text = Nanaulu, the elder brother, was the kahu (caretaker) of Ulu in the days past.
1	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kahu	kahu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	caretaker	caretaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	past	past	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nanaulu | the kahu |  |  | day | of Ulu; caretaker *appos* | 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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