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title: Therefore he announced that he was intending to journey around the i… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore he announced that he was intending to journey around the island for the avowed purpose of consecrating certain temples and offering sacrifices in others. Who acts: king, avowed purpose. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 33

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Therefore he announced that he was intending to journey around the island for the avowed purpose of consecrating certain temples and offering sacrifices in others.

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**Who acts:** king, avowed purpose · **What happens:** announce, intend, avow, consecrate · **To what, where:** island, certain temples, others · **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 (king, avowed purpose), 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:pg66357:15:33
# text = Therefore he announced that he was intending to journey around the island for the avowed purpose of consecrating certain temples and offering sacrifices in others.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	avowed	avow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	consecrating	consecrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	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 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | king |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **intend** | past · progressive | king |  |  | the island |  | for the avowed purpose; journey *advcl* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **avow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **consecrate** | gerund | the avowed purpose *not said here* | certain temples and offering sacrifices |  | others |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme |

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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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