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title: Long before the other chiefs came in sight of the island Moi-keha ha… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Long before the other chiefs came in sight of the island Moi-keha had found the necklace and had sailed away to Hooipo. Who acts: other chiefs. 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 87

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Long before the other chiefs came in sight of the island Moi-keha had found the necklace and had sailed away to Hooipo.

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**Who acts:** other chiefs · **What happens:** come, find, sail away, sight · **To what, where:** sight, keha, Hooipo, island

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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 (other chiefs), 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:pg66357:9:87
# text = Long before the other chiefs came in sight of the island Moi-keha had found the necklace and had sailed away to Hooipo.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hooipo	Hooipo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the other chiefs |  |  | sight of the island |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | keha |  |  |  | the necklace *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme necklace=Attribute |
| 3 | **sail away** | past · perfect |  |  |  | Hooipo |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hooipo=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the island |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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