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title: Kahekili conquered the Oahu army with great slaughter and finally re… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahekili conquered the Oahu army with great slaughter and finally received the body of Kahahana, which was taken to the temple at Waikiki and offered in sacrifice. Who acts: Kahekili. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 68

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Kahekili conquered the Oahu army with great slaughter and finally received the body of Kahahana, which was taken to the temple at Waikiki and offered in sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili · **What happens:** conquer, receive, take, offer · **To what, where:** Oahu army, body, temple, sacrifice

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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), 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:pg66357:16:68
# text = Kahekili conquered the Oahu army with great slaughter and finally received the body of Kahahana, which was taken to the temple at Waikiki and offered in sacrifice.
1	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Waikiki	Waikiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Kahekili | the Oahu army |  |  |  | with great slaughter | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent army=Patient with slaughter=Instrument |
| 2 | **receive** | past | Kahekili *not said here* | the body of Kahahana |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past · passive |  | the body of Kahahana |  | the temple at Waikiki |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to temple=Destination |
| 4 | **offer** | participle |  |  |  | sacrifice |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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