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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 9

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Born on the island of Oahu and belonging to one of the most famous families of priests, he understood thoroughly the temperament of the chiefs of that island and was able to give valuable counsel to his new ruler.

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**Who acts:** Oahu · **What happens:** bear, belong, understand, be, give · **To what, where:** island, one, temperament, valuable counsel, new ruler

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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 (Oahu), 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:pg66357:15:9
# text = Born on the island of Oahu and belonging to one of the most famous families of priests, he understood thoroughly the temperament of the chiefs of that island and was able to give valuable counsel to his new ruler.
1	Born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	temperament	temperament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  | the island of Oahu |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund |  |  | one of the famous families of priests |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **understand** | past | Oahu | the temperament of the chiefs of that island |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer temperament=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | Oahu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | Oahu *not said here* | valuable counsel | Oahu's new ruler |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme to ruler=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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