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title: Another series of prayers and offerings—and frequently a human victi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Another series of prayers and offerings—and frequently a human victim—then the ornamented kapa was wrapped around the image as a war cloak. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 113

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Another series of prayers and offerings—and frequently a human victim—then the ornamented kapa was wrapped around the image as a war cloak.

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**What happens:** ornament, wrap · **To what, where:** ornamented kapa, image, human victim

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66357:14:113
# text = Another series of prayers and offerings—and frequently a human victim—then the ornamented kapa was wrapped around the image as a war cloak.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	kapa	kapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ornament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wrap** | past · passive |  | the ornamented kapa |  | the image | then | as a war cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme around image=Destination |

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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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