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title: They desired to please their king and do all that honour required. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They desired to please their king and do all that honour required. Who acts: bestowal. 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 53

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They desired to please their king and do all that honour required.

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**Who acts:** bestowal · **What happens:** desire, please, do, require · **To what, where:** king, honour

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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 (bestowal), 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:pg66357:13:53
# text = They desired to please their king and do all that honour required.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | bestowal |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **please** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bestowal *not said here* | bestowal's king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | bestowal *not said here* | all honour |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Eventuality |
| 4 | **require** | participle |  | all honour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=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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