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title: The people thought that by the prayer of the priest all troubles of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The people thought that by the prayer of the priest all troubles of tabu had been lifted, so they asked the priest if there would be any trouble if they went on this place of the god. Who acts: people, prayer, troubles, priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 53

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The people thought that by the prayer of the priest all troubles of tabu had been lifted, so they asked the priest if there would be any trouble if they went on this place of the god.

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**Who acts:** people, prayer, troubles, priest · **What happens:** think, lift, ask, be, go, pray · **To what, where:** troubles, priest, trouble, place, tabu · **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 (people, prayer, troubles, priest), 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:pg66357:12:53
# text = The people thought that by the prayer of the priest all troubles of tabu had been lifted, so they asked the priest if there would be any trouble if they went on this place of the god.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | past · perfect · passive | the prayer of the priest | all troubles of tabu |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | troubles *= trouble* | the priest |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | any trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | people |  |  | this place of the god |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on place=Location |
| 6 | **pray** |  | the priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **trouble** |  |  | tabu |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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 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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