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title: It is said that when Moi-keha came back to the Hawaiian Islands he v… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is said that when Moi-keha came back to the Hawaiian Islands he visited all along the island coasts until he came to Kauai. 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 53

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It is said that when Moi-keha came back to the Hawaiian Islands he visited all along the island coasts until he came to Kauai.

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**Who acts:** Moi · **What happens:** say, come back, visit, come · **To what, where:** cover, Hawaiian Islands, Kauai · **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: 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:pg66357:9:53
# text = It is said that when Moi-keha came back to the Hawaiian Islands he visited all along the island coasts until he came to Kauai.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | cover |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | past | Moi |  |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **visit** | past | Moi |  |  |  |  | along the island coasts; all *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | Moi |  |  | Kauai |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial\_Location |

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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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