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title: This woman, Luu-kia, was said to be a descendant of the Nanaulu line… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This woman, Luu-kia, was said to be a descendant of the Nanaulu line of chiefs, originally coming to Hawaii from Tahiti. 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 23

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This woman, Luu-kia, was said to be a descendant of the Nanaulu line of chiefs, originally coming to Hawaii from Tahiti.

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**What happens:** say, be, come · **To what, where:** descendant, Hawaii, Tahiti · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg66357:9:23
# text = This woman, Luu-kia, was said to be a descendant of the Nanaulu line of chiefs, originally coming to Hawaii from Tahiti.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Luu	Luu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	kia	Kia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | this woman *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a descendant |  |  |  | of the Nanaulu line of chiefs | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | gerund |  |  | Hawaii | Tahiti |  | originally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial\_Location from tahiti=Destination |

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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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