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title: When the chiefs heard this report they said, “Truly this is the god… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the chiefs heard this report they said, “Truly this is the god Lono with his temple.” Who acts: chiefs, chief, this. 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 52

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When the chiefs heard this report they said, “Truly this is the god Lono with his temple.”

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**Who acts:** chiefs, chief, this · **What happens:** hear, say, be · **To what, where:** report, god · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (chiefs, chief, this), 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:pg66357:12:52
# text = When the chiefs heard this report they said, “Truly this is the god Lono with his temple.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	Lono	Lono	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the chiefs | this report |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer report=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | chief | this report *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent report=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the god |  |  |  | with Lono's temple; Lono *appos*; truly *property* | tree rules |

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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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