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title: Nanaulu settled on Oahu, taking possession of Oahu, Kauai and Molokai. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Nanaulu settled on Oahu, taking possession of Oahu, Kauai and Molokai. Who acts: Nanaulu. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 155

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Nanaulu settled on Oahu, taking possession of Oahu, Kauai and Molokai.

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**Who acts:** Nanaulu · **What happens:** settle, take, possess · **To what, where:** possession, Oahu

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. 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:pg66357:8:155
# text = Nanaulu settled on Oahu, taking possession of Oahu, Kauai and Molokai.
1	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Molokai	Molokai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | Nanaulu |  |  |  |  | on Oahu | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on oahu=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Nanaulu *not said here* | possession of Oahu and Kauai and Molokai |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | Oahu and Kauai and Molokai |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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