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title: He thought of the naked altars of his own Waipio temple, to which he… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of the naked altars of his own Waipio temple, to which he had brought no captives to be slain in sacrifice. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 66

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He thought of the naked altars of his own Waipio temple, to which he had brought no captives to be slain in sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** think, bring, slay · **To what, where:** captives, sacrifice

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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:pg66357:18:66
# text = He thought of the naked altars of his own Waipio temple, to which he had brought no captives to be slain in sacrifice.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Waipio	Waipio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | chief |  |  |  |  | of the naked altars of chief's own Waipio temple | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect | chief | no captives |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captive=Theme to which=Destination |
| 3 | **slay** | to-infinitive · passive | chief *not said here* |  |  | sacrifice |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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