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title: Therefore, he had requested the king of Oahu to send the high priest… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, he had requested the king of Oahu to send the high priest Ka-leo-puu-puu to combat the supernatural powers of the high priest of Hawaii. Who acts: preparation, high priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 119

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Therefore, he had requested the king of Oahu to send the high priest Ka-leo-puu-puu to combat the supernatural powers of the high priest of Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** preparation, high priest · **What happens:** request, send, puu, combat · **To what, where:** king, supernatural powers

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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: who acts (preparation, 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:pg66357:14:119
# text = Therefore, he had requested the king of Oahu to send the high priest Ka-leo-puu-puu to combat the supernatural powers of the high priest of Hawaii.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	leo	leo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	puu	puu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	puu	puu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	combat	combat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | past · perfect | preparation |  | the king of Oahu |  |  | therefore *property* | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 2 | **send** | to-infinitive | preparation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **puu** |  | the high priest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **combat** | to-infinitive | preparation *not said here* | the supernatural powers of the high priest of Hawaii |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Co-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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