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title: He attacked Hilo, killed his uncle and ravaged Kamehameha’s lands al… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He attacked Hilo, killed his uncle and ravaged Kamehameha’s lands along the northeastern side of the island. Who acts: Keoua. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 12

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He attacked Hilo, killed his uncle and ravaged Kamehameha’s lands along the northeastern side of the island.

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**Who acts:** Keoua · **What happens:** attack, kill, ravage · **To what, where:** Hilo, uncle, lands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keoua), 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:pg66516:21:12
# text = He attacked Hilo, killed his uncle and ravaged Kamehameha’s lands along the northeastern side of the island.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ravaged	ravage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	northeastern	northeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | past | Keoua | Hilo |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hilo=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | past |  | Keoua's uncle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme |
| 3 | **ravage** | past |  | Kamehameha's lands |  |  |  | along the northeastern side of the island | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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 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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