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title: Thus he began the distrust which was to lead Kahahana to ultimately… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus he began the distrust which was to lead Kahahana to ultimately destroy this wise and loyal high priest. Who acts: Kahekili, distrust. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 102

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Thus he began the distrust which was to lead Kahahana to ultimately destroy this wise and loyal high priest.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, distrust · **What happens:** begin, be, destroy · **To what, where:** distrust, high priest

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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, distrust), 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:pg66357:13:102
# text = Thus he began the distrust which was to lead Kahahana to ultimately destroy this wise and loyal high priest.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	distrust	distrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
15	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Kahekili | the distrust |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distrust=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the distrust | the distrust *not said here* |  |  |  | Kahahana *obj*; lead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | the distrust *not said here* | this high priest |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=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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