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title: When Kahekili learned of the death of this great priest he hastened… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When Kahekili learned of the death of this great priest he hastened to gather his warriors together and fit out an immense fleet of canoes in order to undertake the conquest of Oahu. Who acts: Kahekili, great priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kah
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 55

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When Kahekili learned of the death of this great priest he hastened to gather his warriors together and fit out an immense fleet of canoes in order to undertake the conquest of Oahu.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, great priest · **What happens:** learn, hasten, gather, fit out, undertake, die · **To what, where:** warriors, immense fleet, order, conquest

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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 (Kahekili, great 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:pg66357:15:55
# text = When Kahekili learned of the death of this great priest he hastened to gather his warriors together and fit out an immense fleet of canoes in order to undertake the conquest of Oahu.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Kahekili |  |  |  |  | of the death of this great priest | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of death=Topic |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | Kahekili |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Kahekili *not said here* | Kahekili's warriors |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 4 | **fit out** | present | Kahekili *not said here* | a immense fleet of canoes |  | order |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme in order=Trajectory |
| 5 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | Kahekili *not said here* | the conquest of Oahu |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Eventuality |
| 6 | **die** |  | this great priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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