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title: The Ulu line in Hawaii was replaced by a Samoan family of high chief… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ulu line in Hawaii was replaced by a Samoan family of high chiefs brought into Hawaii by Paao, in connection with the overthrow of Kapawa. Who acts: Samoan family. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 158

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The Ulu line in Hawaii was replaced by a Samoan family of high chiefs brought into Hawaii by Paao, in connection with the overthrow of Kapawa.

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**Who acts:** Samoan family · **What happens:** replace, bring, overthrow · **To what, where:** Ulu line, connection, high chiefs, Hawaii, Kapawa

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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 (Samoan family), 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:pg66357:8:158
# text = The Ulu line in Hawaii was replaced by a Samoan family of high chiefs brought into Hawaii by Paao, in connection with the overthrow of Kapawa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Samoan	samoan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kapawa	Kapawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | past · passive | a Samoan family of high chiefs | the Ulu line in Hawaii |  | connection with the overthrow of Kapawa |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | participle |  | high chiefs *not said here* |  | Hawaii |  | by Paao | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into hawaii=Destination |
| 3 | **overthrow** |  |  | Kapawa |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «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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