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title: Each chief of the “Aha-alii” had the right to wear the beautiful fea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Each chief of the “Aha-alii” had the right to wear the beautiful feather lei, or wreath, and the feather cape, and the niho palaoa, or ivory hook, suspended from a heavy necklace of human hair. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 97

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Each chief of the “Aha-alii” had the right to wear the beautiful feather lei, or wreath, and the feather cape, and the niho palaoa, or ivory hook, suspended from a heavy necklace of human hair.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** have, wear, suspend · **To what, where:** right, beautiful feather lei, niho palaoa, heavy necklace

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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 (chief), 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:pg66357:14:97
# text = Each chief of the “Aha-alii” had the right to wear the beautiful feather lei, or wreath, and the feather cape, and the niho palaoa, or ivory hook, suspended from a heavy necklace of human hair.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Aha	aha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	alii	alii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lei	lei	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	niho	niho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	palaoa	palaoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | each chief of the Aha alii | the right |  |  |  | the feather cape and the niho palaoa or ivory hook *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive | each chief of the Aha alii *not said here* | the beautiful feather lei or wreath |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lei=Source |
| 3 | **suspend** | participle |  | the niho palaoa or ivory hook *not said here* |  | a heavy necklace of human hair |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from necklace=Source |

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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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