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title: Hundreds of natives having any kind of claim to chief’s blood had pr… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds of natives having any kind of claim to chief’s blood had presented themselves for this contest. Who acts: natives. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 127

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Hundreds of natives having any kind of claim to chief’s blood had presented themselves for this contest.

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**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** have, present · **To what, where:** kind, Hundreds

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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:pg66357:7:127
# text = Hundreds of natives having any kind of claim to chief’s blood had presented themselves for this contest.
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | natives *not said here* | any kind of claim to chief's blood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 2 | **present** | past · perfect · passive |  | Hundreds of natives |  |  |  | for this contest; hundreds *= hundred* *obj* | 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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