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description: He told Kahahana that the prophet, while pretending to be friendly to Oahu, had at the same time offered the entire government of Oahu to himself. Who acts: Kahekili, same time. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and t
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 101

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He told Kahahana that the prophet, while pretending to be friendly to Oahu, had at the same time offered the entire government of Oahu to himself.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, same time · **What happens:** tell, pretend, be, have, offer · **To what, where:** Kahahana, Oahu, entire government, Kahekili · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, same time), 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:pg66357:13:101
# text = He told Kahahana that the prophet, while pretending to be friendly to Oahu, had at the same time offered the entire government of Oahu to himself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kahekili |  | Kahahana |  |  | the prophet *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kahahana=Recipient |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | Kahekili *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Kahekili *not said here* |  | Oahu |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **offer** | past | the same time | the entire government of Oahu | Kahekili |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent government=Theme to himself=Goal |

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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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