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title: He made Kahahana believe that the high priest was secretly hoping to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He made Kahahana believe that the high priest was secretly hoping to take Oahu from its king and turn it over to himself. Who acts: Oahu, Kahahana, high priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 12

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He made Kahahana believe that the high priest was secretly hoping to take Oahu from its king and turn it over to himself.

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**Who acts:** Oahu, Kahahana, high priest · **What happens:** make, believe, hope, take, turn over · **To what, where:** Kahahana, Oahu, trouble · **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 (Oahu, Kahahana, high priest), 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:pg66357:15:12
# text = He made Kahahana believe that the high priest was secretly hoping to take Oahu from its king and turn it over to himself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Oahu | Kahahana |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | infinitive | Kahahana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hope** | past · progressive | the high priest |  |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the high priest *not said here* | Oahu |  |  |  | from trouble's king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent oahu=Theme from king=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **turn over** | present | Oahu *not said here* | trouble | Oahu |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to himself=Recipient |

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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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