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title: Kahekili and his advisers thought this was an excellent opportunity… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahekili and his advisers thought this was an excellent opportunity to renew influence over Kahahana. Who acts: Kahekili, this. 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 94

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Kahekili and his advisers thought this was an excellent opportunity to renew influence over Kahahana.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, this · **What happens:** think, be, renew · **To what, where:** excellent opportunity, influence, Kahahana · **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, 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:pg66357:13:94
# text = Kahekili and his advisers thought this was an excellent opportunity to renew influence over Kahahana.
1	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	advisers	adviser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	renew	renew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Kahekili and Kahekili's advisers |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | a excellent opportunity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **renew** | to-infinitive | Kahekili and Kahekili's advisers *not said here* | influence |  | Kahahana |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent influence=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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