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title: A certain war-chief said, “I will go and hao that hao treasure, for… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A certain war-chief said, “I will go and hao that hao treasure, for my profession is to hao” (steal). Who acts: certain war chief, that, profession. 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 57

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A certain war-chief said, “I will go and hao that hao treasure, for my profession is to hao” (steal).

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**Who acts:** certain war chief, that, profession · **What happens:** say, go, treasure, be · **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 (certain war chief, that, profession), 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:pg66357:12:57
# text = A certain war-chief said, “I will go and hao that hao treasure, for my profession is to hao” (steal).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hao	hao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hao	hao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hao	hao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	steal	steal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a certain war chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | a certain war chief *= chief* |  |  |  |  | hao and hao treasure *conj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **treasure** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my profession |  |  |  |  | for hao; steal *appos* | 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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