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title: The importance of the plans of the high chiefs was made evident by t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The importance of the plans of the high chiefs was made evident by this large human sacrifice. Who acts: large human sacrifice. 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 27

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The importance of the plans of the high chiefs was made evident by this large human sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** large human sacrifice · **What happens:** make, plan · **To what, where:** importance, high chiefs

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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 (large human sacrifice), 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:pg66357:7:27
# text = The importance of the plans of the high chiefs was made evident by this large human sacrifice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive | large human sacrifice  this | the importance of the plans of the high chiefs |  |  |  | evident *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **plan** |  |  | the high chiefs |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition 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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