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title: It is probable that some of the chiefs rebuked the king for his trea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is probable that some of the chiefs rebuked the king for his treatment of such a wise priest and prophet. Who acts: confidence, some, king. 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 18

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It is probable that some of the chiefs rebuked the king for his treatment of such a wise priest and prophet.

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**Who acts:** confidence, some, king · **What happens:** be, rebuke, treat · **To what, where:** king, wise priest

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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 (confidence, some, king), 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:pg66357:15:18
# text = It is probable that some of the chiefs rebuked the king for his treatment of such a wise priest and prophet.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	rebuked	rebuke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | confidence |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rebuke** | past | some of the chiefs | the king |  |  |  | for king's treatment of such wise priest and prophet | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for treatment=Attribute |
| 3 | **treat** |  | king | such wise priest and prophet |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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