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title: He was attended by high chiefs carrying the royal kahili, or large f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He was attended by high chiefs carrying the royal kahili, or large feather banner, and a royal calabash. Who acts: high chiefs. 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 246

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He was attended by high chiefs carrying the royal kahili, or large feather banner, and a royal calabash.

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**Who acts:** high chiefs · **What happens:** attend, carry · **To what, where:** Kiwalao, royal kahili

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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 (high chiefs), 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:pg66357:14:246
# text = He was attended by high chiefs carrying the royal kahili, or large feather banner, and a royal calabash.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kahili	kahili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	banner	banner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | past · passive | high chiefs | Kiwalao |  |  |  | a royal calabash *conj* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | high chiefs *not said here* | the royal kahili or large feather banner |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kahili=Theme |

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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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