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title: Oahu was also tempting Kahekili, and he had already taken steps to w… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Oahu was also tempting Kahekili, and he had already taken steps to weaken the forces of that island. Who acts: Oahu, Kahekili. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 5

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Oahu was also tempting Kahekili, and he had already taken steps to weaken the forces of that island.

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**Who acts:** Oahu, Kahekili · **What happens:** tempt, take, weaken · **To what, where:** Kahekili, steps, forces

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oahu, Kahekili), 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:pg66357:16:5
# text = Oahu was also tempting Kahekili, and he had already taken steps to weaken the forces of that island.
1	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tempting	tempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
12	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	weaken	weaken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tempt** | past · progressive | Oahu |  | Kahekili |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kahekili=Recipient |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | Kahekili | steps |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 3 | **weaken** | to-infinitive | Kahekili *not said here* | the forces of that island |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent force=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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