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title: He was a kilokilo, an astrologer who understood the places of the st… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a kilokilo, an astrologer who understood the places of the stars in the heavens and the proper course to steer, guided by the sun by day and the stars by night. Who acts: lele, astrologer. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its depend
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 46

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He was a kilokilo, an astrologer who understood the places of the stars in the heavens and the proper course to steer, guided by the sun by day and the stars by night.

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**Who acts:** lele, astrologer · **What happens:** be, understand, steer, guide · **To what, where:** kilokilo, places, heavens

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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 (lele, astrologer), 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:pg66357:9:46
# text = He was a kilokilo, an astrologer who understood the places of the stars in the heavens and the proper course to steer, guided by the sun by day and the stars by night.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kilokilo	kilokilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	steer	steer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lele | a kilokilo |  |  |  | a astrologer *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | past | a astrologer | the places of the stars in the heavens and the proper course and the stars |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 3 | **steer** | to-infinitive | a astrologer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **guide** | participle |  | the heavens and the proper course *not said here* |  |  | day | by the sun | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by sun=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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