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title: Kahekili of Maui desired to bring the two priestly powers into confl… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahekili of Maui desired to bring the two priestly powers into conflict with each other. Who acts: Kahekili. 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 127

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Kahekili of Maui desired to bring the two priestly powers into conflict with each other.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili · **What happens:** desire, bring · **To what, where:** two priestly powers, conflict

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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 (Kahekili), 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:pg66357:14:127
# text = Kahekili of Maui desired to bring the two priestly powers into conflict with each other.
1	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	priestly	priestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nmod	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | Kahekili of Maui |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kahekili of Maui *not said here* | the two priestly powers |  | conflict with each |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme into conflict=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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