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title: Kaha-wali excelled all the Kauai chiefs in this sport, so he determi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaha-wali excelled all the Kauai chiefs in this sport, so he determined to test his skill on the other islands. Who acts: Kaha wali. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 21

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Kaha-wali excelled all the Kauai chiefs in this sport, so he determined to test his skill on the other islands.

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**Who acts:** Kaha wali · **What happens:** excel, determine, test · **To what, where:** Kaha wali, skill, other islands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaha wali), 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:pg66516:10:21
# text = Kaha-wali excelled all the Kauai chiefs in this sport, so he determined to test his skill on the other islands.
1	Kaha	Kaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wali	wali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	excelled	excel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **excel** | participle |  | Kaha wali *not said here* |  |  |  | all Kauai chiefs in this sport *obl:agent* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **determine** | past | Kaha wali |  |  |  |  | wali *nsubj* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **test** | to-infinitive | Kaha wali *not said here* | wali's skill |  | the other islands |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |

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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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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