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title: The bond of brotherhood among chiefs was a matter of individual conc… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The bond of brotherhood among chiefs was a matter of individual concern. Who acts: bond. 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 99

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The bond of brotherhood among chiefs was a matter of individual concern.

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**Who acts:** bond · **What happens:** be, bond · **To what, where:** matter, brotherhood

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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 (bond), 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:pg66357:14:99
# text = The bond of brotherhood among chiefs was a matter of individual concern.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	brotherhood	brotherhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the bond of brotherhood among chiefs | a matter |  |  |  | of individual concern | tree rules |
| 2 | **bond** |  |  | brotherhood |  |  |  | among chiefs | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient among=obl |

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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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