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title: The king had sent a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The king had sent a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament to be placed on one of the small islands some distance from 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 75

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The king had sent a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament to be placed on one of the small islands some distance from Kauai.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send, place · **To what, where:** human hair necklace

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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:pg66357:9:75
# text = The king had sent a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament to be placed on one of the small islands some distance from Kauai.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect | the king | a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | to-infinitive · passive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on one of the small islands and some distance from Kauai | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on one=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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