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title: Throughout all the Hawaiian Islands no priest had a reputation for a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Throughout all the Hawaiian Islands no priest had a reputation for ability to read the signs of the sacrifices, utter oracles and prepare incantations against enemies greater than that of Ka-o-pulu-pulu. Who acts: priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days o
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 38

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Throughout all the Hawaiian Islands no priest had a reputation for ability to read the signs of the sacrifices, utter oracles and prepare incantations against enemies greater than that of Ka-o-pulu-pulu.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** have, read, prepare, sign · **To what, where:** reputation, signs, incantations, sacrifices

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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 (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:pg66357:15:38
# text = Throughout all the Hawaiian Islands no priest had a reputation for ability to read the signs of the sacrifices, utter oracles and prepare incantations against enemies greater than that of Ka-o-pulu-pulu.
1	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	oracles	oracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	incantations	incantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	36	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	pulu	pulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	pulu	pulu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | no priest | a reputation |  |  | throughout all Hawaiian Islands | for ability | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | no priest *not said here* | the signs of the sacrifices and utter oracles |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | no priest *not said here* | incantations |  |  |  | great *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incantation=Patient |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | the sacrifices |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: 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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