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title: Then Kamehameha sent warriors around the western side of the island… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Kamehameha sent warriors around the western side of the island to attack Keoua’s home district. Who acts: Kamehameha. 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 16

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Then Kamehameha sent warriors around the western side of the island to attack Keoua’s home district.

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**Who acts:** Kamehameha · **What happens:** send, attack · **To what, where:** warriors, western side, home district

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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), 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:pg66516:21:16
# text = Then Kamehameha sent warriors around the western side of the island to attack Keoua’s home district.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	Keoua	Keoua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Kamehameha | warriors |  | the western side of the island | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive | Kamehameha *not said here* | Keoua's home district |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=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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