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title: When the Hawaiian legends say “The Ulu line of high chiefs became ex… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Hawaiian legends say “The Ulu line of high chiefs became extinct on account of the crimes of Kapawa,” something must be considered besides property, morality or human life. Who acts: Hawaiian legends, Ulu line. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 172

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When the Hawaiian legends say “The Ulu line of high chiefs became extinct on account of the crimes of Kapawa,” something must be considered besides property, morality or human life.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian legends, Ulu line · **What happens:** say, become, consider, account, incriminate · **To what, where:** account, something, crimes, Kapawa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hawaiian legends, Ulu line), 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:pg66357:8:172
# text = When the Hawaiian legends say “The Ulu line of high chiefs became extinct on account of the crimes of Kapawa,” something must be considered besides property, morality or human life.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
14	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Kapawa	Kapawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	morality	morality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hawaiian legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | past | the Ulu line of high chiefs |  |  | account of the crimes of Kapawa |  | extinct *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **consider** | must · passive |  | something |  |  |  | besides property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **account** *in a quote* |  |  | the crimes of Kapawa |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **incriminate** *in a quote* |  |  | Kapawa |  |  |  |  | nom crime «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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