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title: Puna, the king, had a daughter who belonged to the fairy tale period… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Puna, the king, had a daughter who belonged to the fairy tale period of Europe rather than to the free giving and taking in marriage of the Hawaiians. Who acts: Puna, daughter. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 70

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Puna, the king, had a daughter who belonged to the fairy tale period of Europe rather than to the free giving and taking in marriage of the Hawaiians.

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**Who acts:** Puna, daughter · **What happens:** have, belong, give, take, marry · **To what, where:** daughter, marriage, Hawaiians

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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 (Puna, daughter), 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:pg66357:9:70
# text = Puna, the king, had a daughter who belonged to the fairy tale period of Europe rather than to the free giving and taking in marriage of the Hawaiians.
1	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	10	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
23	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Puna | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **belong** | past | a daughter |  |  |  |  | to the fairy tale period of Europe | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | a daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | a daughter *not said here* |  |  | marriage of the Hawaiians |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in marriage=Location |
| 5 | **marry** |  |  | the Hawaiians |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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