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title: Moi-keha, however, seems to have taken this young man under his own… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Moi-keha, however, seems to have taken this young man under his own especial protection as his foster son. Who acts: Moi. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 18

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Moi-keha, however, seems to have taken this young man under his own especial protection as his foster son.

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**Who acts:** Moi · **What happens:** seem, take, protect · **To what, where:** young man, own especial protection

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moi), 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:pg66357:9:18
# text = Moi-keha, however, seems to have taken this young man under his own especial protection as his foster son.
1	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	especial	especial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Moi |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive · perfect | Moi *not said here* | this young man |  | Moi's own especial protection |  | as Moi's foster son | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme as son=Attribute |
| 3 | **protect** |  | Moi |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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