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title: The priest assured them that his prayer had been without fault and t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The priest assured them that his prayer had been without fault and there would be no death in all that belonged to the gods. Who acts: priest, prayer, death. 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 54

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The priest assured them that his prayer had been without fault and there would be no death in all that belonged to the gods.

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**Who acts:** priest, prayer, death · **What happens:** assure, be, belong, pray · **To what, where:** people, death

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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 (priest, prayer, death), 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:pg66357:12:54
# text = The priest assured them that his prayer had been without fault and there would be no death in all that belonged to the gods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | past | the priest |  | people |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | priest's prayer |  |  |  |  | without fault and no death | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | priest's prayer *not said here* | no death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | past | no death |  |  |  |  | to the gods | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pray** |  | priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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