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title: Kahekili had fomented distrust and bloodshed among the Oahu chiefs a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahekili had fomented distrust and bloodshed among the Oahu chiefs and at last with an immense fleet of canoes filled with warriors had landed on the beach, south of the crater Leahi, now known as Diamond Head. Who acts: Kahekili, last. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 6

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Kahekili had fomented distrust and bloodshed among the Oahu chiefs and at last with an immense fleet of canoes filled with warriors had landed on the beach, south of the crater Leahi, now known as Diamond Head.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, last · **What happens:** foment, fill, land, know · **To what, where:** distrust, canoes, beach

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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 (Kahekili, last), 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:pg66357:16:6
# text = Kahekili had fomented distrust and bloodshed among the Oahu chiefs and at last with an immense fleet of canoes filled with warriors had landed on the beach, south of the crater Leahi, now known as Diamond Head.
1	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fomented	foment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	distrust	distrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bloodshed	bloodshed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	south	south	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	Leahi	Leahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **foment** | past · perfect | Kahekili | distrust and bloodshed |  |  |  | among the Oahu chiefs | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | canoes *not said here* |  |  |  | with warriors | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with warrior=Instrument |
| 3 | **land** | past · perfect | last with a immense fleet of canoes |  |  | the beach and the crater |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on beach=Destination |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | as Diamond Head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as head=Attribute |

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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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