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title: He traced his royal blood to Pili, “from a foreign land,” and throug… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He traced his royal blood to Pili, “from a foreign land,” and through Pili back to Wa-kea, a Polynesian chief of perhaps the second century; and thence back through a series of hero-gods to Kumu-Honua, “the first created.” Who acts: king, first. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. W
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 9

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He traced his royal blood to Pili, “from a foreign land,” and through Pili back to Wa-kea, a Polynesian chief of perhaps the second century; and thence back through a series of hero-gods to Kumu-Honua, “the first created.”

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**Who acts:** king, first · **What happens:** trace, create · **To what, where:** royal blood, Pili, foreign land

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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 (king, first), 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:pg66357:8:9
# text = He traced his royal blood to Pili, “from a foreign land,” and through Pili back to Wa-kea, a Polynesian chief of perhaps the second century; and thence back through a series of hero-gods to Kumu-Honua, “the first created.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	traced	trace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pili	Pili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Pili	pili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	kea	kea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Kumu	Kumu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Honua	Honua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	52	nsubj	_	_
52	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | past | king | king's royal blood | Pili | a foreign land |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 2 | **create** *in a quote* | past | the first |  |  | Pili and a series of hero gods to Kumu and Honua |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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