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title: The high priest reminded the chiefs also concerning the ivory of Oah… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The high priest reminded the chiefs also concerning the ivory of Oahu, that this, too, was a proof of the favour of the gods. Who acts: high priest. 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 69

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The high priest reminded the chiefs also concerning the ivory of Oahu, that this, too, was a proof of the favour of the gods.

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**Who acts:** high priest · **What happens:** remind, concern, be, favour · **To what, where:** chiefs, ivory, proof, gods

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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 (high priest), 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:pg66357:13:69
# text = The high priest reminded the chiefs also concerning the ivory of Oahu, that this, too, was a proof of the favour of the gods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | the high priest | the chiefs |  |  |  | concern this | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund |  | the ivory of Oahu |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ivory=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a proof |  |  |  | of the favour of the gods | tree rules |
| 4 | **favour** |  |  | the gods |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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