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title: King Kalakaua adds a romantic incident to the coming of Moi-keha to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: King Kalakaua adds a romantic incident to the coming of Moi-keha to Kauai. Who acts: King. 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 69

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King Kalakaua adds a romantic incident to the coming of Moi-keha to Kauai.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** add, come · **To what, where:** romantic incident, Kauai

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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 (King), 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:pg66357:9:69
# text = King Kalakaua adds a romantic incident to the coming of Moi-keha to Kauai.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Kalakaua	Kalakaua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	dep	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | King | a romantic incident |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | King *not said here* |  | Kauai |  |  | of Moi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of moi=Initial\_Location to kauai=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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