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title: He called upon the high chiefs of the various districts of his islan… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He called upon the high chiefs of the various districts of his island for a more thorough preparation of men and war supplies, that with a new and larger army he might make complete subjugation of Maui. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regime
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 50

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He called upon the high chiefs of the various districts of his island for a more thorough preparation of men and war supplies, that with a new and larger army he might make complete subjugation of Maui.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** call, make, prepare, subjugate · **To what, where:** that, men, Maui · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king), 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:pg66357:14:50
# text = He called upon the high chiefs of the various districts of his island for a more thorough preparation of men and war supplies, that with a new and larger army he might make complete subjugation of Maui.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	thorough	thorough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
35	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	subjugation	subjugation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | king |  |  |  |  | upon the high chiefs of the various districts of king's island for a thorough preparation of men and war supplies | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | might | king | that |  |  |  | with a new larger army; complete subjugation of Maui *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subjugation=Product |
| 3 | **prepare** |  |  | men and war supplies |  |  |  |  | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **subjugate** |  |  | Maui |  |  |  |  | nom subjugation «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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