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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 100

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Then Kahekili insinuated that the high priest of Oahu, in refusing the grant of the ivory and the sacred lands, had been very insincere.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili · **What happens:** insinuate, refuse, grant · **To what, where:** grant, ivory

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahekili), 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:pg66357:13:100
# text = Then Kahekili insinuated that the high priest of Oahu, in refusing the grant of the ivory and the sacred lands, had been very insincere.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	insinuated	insinuate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	insincere	insincere	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insinuate** *speech: other* | past | Kahekili |  |  |  | then | the high priest of Oahu *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | gerund | Kahekili *not said here* | the grant of the ivory and the sacred lands |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Theme |
| 3 | **grant** |  |  | the ivory and the sacred lands |  |  |  |  | nom grant «possession 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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