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title: Kapawa was the last high chief of unblemished blood in the Ulu line… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kapawa was the last high chief of unblemished blood in the Ulu line on Hawaii. Who acts: Kapawa. 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 156

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Kapawa was the last high chief of unblemished blood in the Ulu line on Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Kapawa · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** last high chief

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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 (Kapawa), 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:pg66357:8:156
# text = Kapawa was the last high chief of unblemished blood in the Ulu line on Hawaii.
1	Kapawa	Kapawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	unblemished	unblemished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kapawa | the last high chief |  |  |  | of unblemished blood in the Ulu line on Hawaii | 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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