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title: The priests and chiefs who wished to perpetuate tabu gathered around… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The priests and chiefs who wished to perpetuate tabu gathered around him and a rebellion was instituted. Who acts: priests. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 76

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The priests and chiefs who wished to perpetuate tabu gathered around him and a rebellion was instituted.

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**Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** wish, perpetuate, gather, institute · **To what, where:** tabu, rebellion

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests), 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:pg66357:19:76
# text = The priests and chiefs who wished to perpetuate tabu gathered around him and a rebellion was instituted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	perpetuate	perpetuate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	instituted	institute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | the priests and chiefs |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **perpetuate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the priests and chiefs *not said here* | tabu |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tabu=Patient |
| 3 | **gather** | past | the priests and chiefs |  |  |  |  | around guardian | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **institute** | past · passive |  | a rebellion |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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