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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 68

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This would give to Kahekili a basis for invasion, a powerful influence over the gods of Oahu, and would make it still more difficult for the Oahuans to maintain this independence.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** give, make, maintain · **To what, where:** basis, Kahekili, influence, independence

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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 (This), 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:pg66357:13:68
# text = This would give to Kahekili a basis for invasion, a powerful influence over the gods of Oahu, and would make it still more difficult for the Oahuans to maintain this independence.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Oahuans	Oahuan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | This | a basis and a powerful influence over the gods of Oahu | Kahekili |  |  | for invasion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent basis=Theme to kahekili=Recipient for invasion=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | would | This *not said here* | influence |  |  |  | difficult *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | this independence |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=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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