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title: It was said that Kahekili followed his advice in creating a division… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was said that Kahekili followed his advice in creating a division between the king of Oahu and Ka-o-pulu-pulu. Who acts: Kahekili. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 11

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It was said that Kahekili followed his advice in creating a division between the king of Oahu and Ka-o-pulu-pulu.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili · **What happens:** say, follow, create · **To what, where:** trouble, advice, division · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahekili), 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:pg66357:15:11
# text = It was said that Kahekili followed his advice in creating a division between the king of Oahu and Ka-o-pulu-pulu.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	pulu	pulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	pulu	pulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Kahekili | Kahekili's advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 3 | **create** | gerund | Kahekili *not said here* | a division |  |  |  | between the king | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent division=Result |

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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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