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title: He heard of the organisation of the two powerful bodies of young chi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He heard of the organisation of the two powerful bodies of young chiefs known in Hawaiian history as “the regiments called Alapa and Pii-pii.” Who acts: Kahekili, regiments. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 83

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He heard of the organisation of the two powerful bodies of young chiefs known in Hawaiian history as “the regiments called Alapa and Pii-pii.”

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, regiments · **What happens:** hear, know, call · **To what, where:** young chiefs, Hawaiian history · **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 (Kahekili, regiments), 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:pg66357:13:83
# text = He heard of the organisation of the two powerful bodies of young chiefs known in Hawaiian history as “the regiments called Alapa and Pii-pii.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	organisation	organisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	regiments	regiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
23	Alapa	Alapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	pii	pii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Kahekili |  |  |  |  | of the organisation of the two powerful bodies of young chiefs | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of organisation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | young chiefs *not said here* |  | Hawaiian history |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | past | the regiments |  |  |  |  | Alapa and Pii *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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