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title: At this time he broached the agreement he had entered into with Kahe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At this time he broached the agreement he had entered into with Kahekili concerning the ivory of Oahu and the temple lands of Kualoa. Who acts: Kahahana, Kahekili. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 42

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At this time he broached the agreement he had entered into with Kahekili concerning the ivory of Oahu and the temple lands of Kualoa.

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**Who acts:** Kahahana, Kahekili · **What happens:** broach, enter, concern · **To what, where:** agreement, ivory

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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 (Kahahana, Kahekili), 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:pg66357:13:42
# text = At this time he broached the agreement he had entered into with Kahekili concerning the ivory of Oahu and the temple lands of Kualoa.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	broached	broach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Kualoa	Kualoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	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 | **broach** | past | Kahahana | the agreement |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past · perfect | Kahahana | the agreement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme agreement=Destination |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | Kahekili | the ivory of Oahu and the temple lands of Kualoa |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ivory=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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