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title: It was a burial custom to place the palaoa in the burial cave in whi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a burial custom to place the palaoa in the burial cave in which the bones of any dead chief might be secreted. Who acts: necklace. 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 24

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It was a burial custom to place the palaoa in the burial cave in which the bones of any dead chief might be secreted.

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**Who acts:** necklace · **What happens:** be, secrete · **To what, where:** burial custom, bones, burial cave

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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 (necklace), 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:pg66357:13:24
# text = It was a burial custom to place the palaoa in the burial cave in which the bones of any dead chief might be secreted.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	burial	burial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palaoa	palaoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	secreted	secrete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | necklace | a burial custom and place |  |  |  | place *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **secrete** | might · passive |  | the bones of any dead chief |  | the burial cave |  |  | 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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