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title: The bird-hunters of each chief had scoured the forests for the rich… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird-hunters of each chief had scoured the forests for the rich crimson feathers of the iiwi, which were woven into glistening war capes. Who acts: bird hunters. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 79

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The bird-hunters of each chief had scoured the forests for the rich crimson feathers of the iiwi, which were woven into glistening war capes.

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**Who acts:** bird hunters · **What happens:** scour, weave, glisten · **To what, where:** forests, iiwi, war capes

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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 (bird hunters), 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:pg66357:14:79
# text = The bird-hunters of each chief had scoured the forests for the rich crimson feathers of the iiwi, which were woven into glistening war capes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	scoured	scour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	iiwi	iiwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	capes	cape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past · perfect | the bird hunters | the forests |  |  |  | of each chief; for the rich crimson feathers of the iiwi | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Location for feather=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | past · passive |  | the iiwi |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **glisten** | gerund |  | war capes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cape=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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