---
title: “It is his wish that Ulu, his son, should sail toward the west and s… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is his wish that Ulu, his son, should sail toward the west and should find the land of our fathers, He will have many companions, but these will be selected from only the most worthy. Who acts: herald, wish, Kii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, w
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/60/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Sons of Kii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/) / 60

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 60

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“It is his wish that Ulu, his son, should sail toward the west and should find the land of our fathers, He will have many companions, but these will be selected from only the most worthy.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** herald, wish, Kii · **What happens:** be, sail, find, have, select · **To what, where:** wish, west, land, many companions, these

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (herald, wish, Kii), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:7:60
# text = “It is his wish that Ulu, his son, should sail toward the west and should find the land of our fathers, He will have many companions, but these will be selected from only the most worthy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
37	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | herald | Kii's wish and Kii's son |  |  |  | Kii *nmod:poss*; Ulu *appos*; Kii's son *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** *in a quote* | should | Kii's wish and Kii's son |  |  | the west |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward west=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | should | Kii's wish and Kii's son *not said here* | the land of our fathers |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | future | Kii | many companions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient |
| 5 | **select** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/59/)
- next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/61/)
- ↑ back to [The Sons of Kii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/)