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title: This Kahahana readily gave to him as land that had been conquered an… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This Kahahana readily gave to him as land that had been conquered and won from its inhabitants, concerning which there would be small dispute. Who acts: Kahahana. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 99

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This Kahahana readily gave to him as land that had been conquered and won from its inhabitants, concerning which there would be small dispute.

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**Who acts:** Kahahana · **What happens:** give, conquer, win, concern, be · **To what, where:** King, land, small dispute

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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 (Kahahana), 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:pg66357:13:99
# text = This Kahahana readily gave to him as land that had been conquered and won from its inhabitants, concerning which there would be small dispute.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | this Kahahana |  | King |  |  | as land; readily *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **conquer** | past · perfect · passive |  | land |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tract's inhabitants *obl:agent* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **concern** | gerund | this Kahahana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | small dispute |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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