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title: The fourth day the chiefs rested and the common people gave an exhib… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The fourth day the chiefs rested and the common people gave an exhibition of their attainments, and a sufficient number of canoe-makers, house-builders, fishermen and other helpers were easily secured. Who acts: chiefs, common people. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 152

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The fourth day the chiefs rested and the common people gave an exhibition of their attainments, and a sufficient number of canoe-makers, house-builders, fishermen and other helpers were easily secured.

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**Who acts:** chiefs, common people · **What happens:** rest, give, secure, exhibit, attain · **To what, where:** exhibition, sufficient number, attainments

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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 (chiefs, common people), 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:pg66357:7:152
# text = The fourth day the chiefs rested and the common people gave an exhibition of their attainments, and a sufficient number of canoe-makers, house-builders, fishermen and other helpers were easily secured.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	attainments	attainment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	helpers	helper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | the chiefs |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the common people | a exhibition of chiefs's attainments |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exhibition=Theme |
| 3 | **secure** | past · passive |  | a sufficient number of canoe makers and house builders and fishermen and other helpers |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **exhibit** |  |  | chiefs's attainments |  |  |  |  | nom exhibition «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **attain** |  | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  |  | nom attainment «act transitive»: poss=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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