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title: The Oahu chiefs made a display no less gorgeous along the sands of W… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Oahu chiefs made a display no less gorgeous along the sands of Waikiki, as they received their king. Who acts: Oahu chiefs, sands. 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 39

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The Oahu chiefs made a display no less gorgeous along the sands of Waikiki, as they received their king.

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**Who acts:** Oahu chiefs, sands · **What happens:** make, receive · **To what, where:** display, king

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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 (Oahu chiefs, sands), 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:pg66357:13:39
# text = The Oahu chiefs made a display no less gorgeous along the sands of Waikiki, as they received their king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Waikiki	Waikiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Oahu chiefs | a display |  |  |  | gorgeous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset display=Product |
| 2 | **receive** | past | sands *= sand* | sands's king |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |

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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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