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title: He began a course of action inspired by his Maui advisers which was… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He began a course of action inspired by his Maui advisers which was thoroughly overbearing and capricious and finally created dissension throughout his kingdom. Who acts: King, Maui advisers. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its depende
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 109

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He began a course of action inspired by his Maui advisers which was thoroughly overbearing and capricious and finally created dissension throughout his kingdom.

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**Who acts:** King, Maui advisers · **What happens:** begin, inspire, be, create · **To what, where:** course, action, dissension

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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 (King, Maui advisers), 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:pg66357:13:109
# text = He began a course of action inspired by his Maui advisers which was thoroughly overbearing and capricious and finally created dissension throughout his kingdom.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	advisers	adviser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	overbearing	overbearing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	capricious	capricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	dissension	dissension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | King | a course of action |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Eventuality |
| 2 | **inspire** | participle |  | action *not said here* |  |  |  | by King's Maui advisers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | King's Maui advisers |  |  |  |  | overbearing, thoroughly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | King's Maui advisers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **create** | participle | King's Maui advisers *not said here* | dissension |  |  | throughout King's kingdom | finally *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dissension=Result |

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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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