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title: In the various conversations he tried to impress the Oahu king with… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the various conversations he tried to impress the Oahu king with the belief that the prophet was really a traitor instead of a friend. Who acts: Kahekili, prophet. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 103

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In the various conversations he tried to impress the Oahu king with the belief that the prophet was really a traitor instead of a friend.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, prophet · **What happens:** try, impress, be · **To what, where:** various conversations, Oahu king, traitor

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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, prophet), 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:pg66357:13:103
# text = In the various conversations he tried to impress the Oahu king with the belief that the prophet was really a traitor instead of a friend.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	impress	impress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl	_	_
22	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Kahekili |  |  | the various conversations |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **impress** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kahekili *not said here* | the Oahu king |  |  |  | with the belief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the prophet | a traitor |  |  |  | instead a friend | 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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