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title: In time of war a captured chief, unless claimed as a “blood brother”… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In time of war a captured chief, unless claimed as a “blood brother” by a friend in the ranks of the enemy, or accepted by the new king, was sentenced to the heiau, or temple, as a human sacrifice. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 96

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In time of war a captured chief, unless claimed as a “blood brother” by a friend in the ranks of the enemy, or accepted by the new king, was sentenced to the heiau, or temple, as a human sacrifice.

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**What happens:** capture, claim, accept, sentence · **To what, where:** captured chief, enemy

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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: 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:pg66357:14:96
# text = In time of war a captured chief, unless claimed as a “blood brother” by a friend in the ranks of the enemy, or accepted by the new king, was sentenced to the heiau, or temple, as a human sacrifice.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	sentenced	sentence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	heiau	heiau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  | a captured chief *not said here* |  |  |  | as a blood brother; a friend in the ranks of the enemy *obl:agent* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accept** | participle |  | the enemy *not said here* |  |  |  | by the new king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sentence** | past · passive |  | a captured chief |  |  | time | to the heiau or temple; as a human sacrifice | tree rules |

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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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