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title: During this conflict at home the high chiefs of the other islands he… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: During this conflict at home the high chiefs of the other islands held consultation concerning their common enemy and the best way to overthrow him. Who acts: high chiefs, consultation. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and t
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 14

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During this conflict at home the high chiefs of the other islands held consultation concerning their common enemy and the best way to overthrow him.

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**Who acts:** high chiefs, consultation · **What happens:** hold, concern, overthrow · **To what, where:** consultation, common enemy, man

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high chiefs, consultation), 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:pg66357:17:14
# text = During this conflict at home the high chiefs of the other islands held consultation concerning their common enemy and the best way to overthrow him.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	consultation	consultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	overthrow	overthrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the high chiefs of the other islands | consultation |  |  | during this conflict at home |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consultation=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | consultation *not said here* | islands's common enemy and the best way |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |
| 3 | **overthrow** | to-infinitive | consultation *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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