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title: Lonopele soon discovered the murder, and made war upon Paao. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lonopele soon discovered the murder, and made war upon Paao. Who acts: Lonopele. 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 56

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Lonopele soon discovered the murder, and made war upon Paao.

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**Who acts:** Lonopele · **What happens:** discover, make · **To what, where:** murder, war

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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 (Lonopele), 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:pg66357:8:56
# text = Lonopele soon discovered the murder, and made war upon Paao.
1	Lonopele	Lonopele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | Lonopele | the murder |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | Lonopele *not said here* | war |  |  |  | upon Paao | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |

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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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