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description: Kamehameha quickly returned from Maui and made an immediate attack on his enemy, who had taken possession of a fertile highland plain called Waimea. Who acts: Kamehameha, enemy. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 13

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Kamehameha quickly returned from Maui and made an immediate attack on his enemy, who had taken possession of a fertile highland plain called Waimea.

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**Who acts:** Kamehameha, enemy · **What happens:** return, make, take, call, possess · **To what, where:** Maui, immediate attack, enemy, possession, fertile highland plain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kamehameha, enemy), 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:pg66516:21:13
# text = Kamehameha quickly returned from Maui and made an immediate attack on his enemy, who had taken possession of a fertile highland plain called Waimea.
1	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	highland	highland	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	Waimea	Waimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Kamehameha |  |  | Maui |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from maui=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | Kamehameha *not said here* | a immediate attack |  | Kamehameha's enemy |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | Kamehameha's enemy | possession of a fertile highland plain |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a fertile highland plain *not said here* |  |  |  | Waimea *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | a fertile highland plain |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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 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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