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title: If any opportunity arose for consulting the omens in regard to the f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: If any opportunity arose for consulting the omens in regard to the future welfare of Oahu it was his duty to give the benefit of his wisdom to his people. Who acts: opportunity. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 45

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If any opportunity arose for consulting the omens in regard to the future welfare of Oahu it was his duty to give the benefit of his wisdom to his people.

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**Who acts:** opportunity · **What happens:** arise, consult, be, give · **To what, where:** omens, regard, duty, benefit, people

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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 (opportunity), 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:pg66357:15:45
# text = If any opportunity arose for consulting the omens in regard to the future welfare of Oahu it was his duty to give the benefit of his wisdom to his people.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	consulting	consult	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	omens	omen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | any opportunity |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **consult** | gerund | any opportunity *not said here* | the omens |  | regard and Oahu's duty |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omen=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | opportunity | Oahu's duty |  |  |  | to the future welfare of Oahu; Oahu *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | any opportunity *not said here* | the benefit of Oahu's wisdom | Oahu's people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme to people=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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