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title: The contests among the chiefs had resulted in the selection of a muc… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The contests among the chiefs had resulted in the selection of a much larger number of chiefs than could possibly go with the two young princes. Who acts: contests. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 177

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The contests among the chiefs had resulted in the selection of a much larger number of chiefs than could possibly go with the two young princes.

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**Who acts:** contests · **What happens:** result, go, select · **To what, where:** selection, larger number

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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 (contests), 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:pg66357:7:177
# text = The contests among the chiefs had resulted in the selection of a much larger number of chiefs than could possibly go with the two young princes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	contests	contest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | past · perfect | the contests among the chiefs |  |  | the selection of a larger number of chiefs |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in selection=Location |
| 2 | **go** | could | the contests among the chiefs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the two young princes; possibly *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with prince=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **select** |  |  | a larger number of chiefs |  |  |  |  | nom selection «act transitive»: of=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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