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description: When he died in 1782, he left the kingdom to his son Kiwalao, giving the second place to his nephew Kamehameha. Who acts: king. 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 4

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When he died in 1782, he left the kingdom to his son Kiwalao, giving the second place to his nephew Kamehameha.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** die, leave, give · **To what, where:** kingdom, son, second place, nephew

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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 (king), 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:pg66516:21:4
# text = When he died in 1782, he left the kingdom to his son Kiwalao, giving the second place to his nephew Kamehameha.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1782	1782	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	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	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	Kiwalao	Kiwalao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | king |  |  |  |  | in 1782 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1782=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | past | king | the kingdom | king's son |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to son=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | king *not said here* | the second place | king's nephew |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to nephew=Recipient |

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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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