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title: Then a high chiefess, Ka-maka-helei, the mother of Kaumu-alii, the l… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a high chiefess, Ka-maka-helei, the mother of Kaumu-alii, the last king of Kauai, said: “Not for war is our god, but we will seek the pleasure of the god.” Who acts: high chiefess, we. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 74

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Then a high chiefess, Ka-maka-helei, the mother of Kaumu-alii, the last king of Kauai, said: “Not for war is our god, but we will seek the pleasure of the god.”

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**Who acts:** high chiefess, we · **What happens:** say, not be, seek, please · **To what, where:** god, pleasure · **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 (high chiefess, we), 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:pg66357:12:74
# text = Then a high chiefess, Ka-maka-helei, the mother of Kaumu-alii, the last king of Kauai, said: “Not for war is our god, but we will seek the pleasure of the god.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	maka	maka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	helei	helei	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kaumu	Kaumu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	alii	alii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	parataxis	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	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 high chiefess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | our god |  |  |  | for war; our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** *in a quote* | future | we | the pleasure of the god |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 4 | **please** *in a quote* |  |  | the god |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling 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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