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title: A chief and a priest tied the ends of their long malo-like sashes an… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A chief and a priest tied the ends of their long malo-like sashes and held them up in their left hands. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 40

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A chief and a priest tied the ends of their long malo-like sashes and held them up in their left hands.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** tie, hold up · **To what, where:** ends, left hands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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:pg66357:12:40
# text = A chief and a priest tied the ends of their long malo-like sashes and held them up in their left hands.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	malo	malo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sashes	sash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | participle | a chief and a priest *not said here* | the ends of chief's long like sashes |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 2 | **hold up** | past | a chief and a priest | ends *= end* |  | chief's left hands |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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