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title: At last Kahahana called the high chiefs and those belonging to the h… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Kahahana called the high chiefs and those belonging to the highest priesthood together for consultation concerning the affairs of the kingdom. Who acts: those, consultation. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 41

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At last Kahahana called the high chiefs and those belonging to the highest priesthood together for consultation concerning the affairs of the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** those, consultation · **What happens:** call, belong, concern · **To what, where:** high chiefs, affairs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (those, consultation), 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:pg66357:13:41
# text = At last Kahahana called the high chiefs and those belonging to the highest priesthood together for consultation concerning the affairs of the kingdom.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
10	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	consultation	consultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past |  | the high chiefs |  |  |  | at last Kahahana | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at kahahana=Stimulus |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | those |  |  |  |  | to the highest priesthood for consultation | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | consultation *not said here* | the affairs of the kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus affair=Experiencer |

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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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