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title: After a time Moi-keha found that life with his brother was not so pl… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time Moi-keha found that life with his brother was not so pleasant as might be desired, therefore he again prepared for a new voyage, this time returning to his native land. Who acts: Moi, life, time. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, wi
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 41

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After a time Moi-keha found that life with his brother was not so pleasant as might be desired, therefore he again prepared for a new voyage, this time returning to his native land.

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**Who acts:** Moi, life, time · **What happens:** find, not be, desire, prepare, return

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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, life, time), 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:pg66357:9:41
# text = After a time Moi-keha found that life with his brother was not so pleasant as might be desired, therefore he again prepared for a new voyage, this time returning to his native land.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Moi |  |  |  | time |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | life with Moi's brother |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **desire** | might · passive | life with Moi's brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |
| 4 | **prepare** | past | Moi |  |  |  | again | for a new voyage and this time; therefore *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for voyage=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **return** | gerund | this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Moi's native land *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result |

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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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