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title: Okela, the chief who had called to Taunoa, at once preceded the crow… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Okela, the chief who had called to Taunoa, at once preceded the crowd thronging hastily behind, giving Taunoa the post of honour after Okela. Who acts: crowd. 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 37

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Okela, the chief who had called to Taunoa, at once preceded the crowd thronging hastily behind, giving Taunoa the post of honour after Okela.

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**Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** call, proceed, throng, give · **To what, where:** chief, Taunoa, crowd, post, Okela · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crowd), 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:pg66357:7:37
# text = Okela, the chief who had called to Taunoa, at once preceded the crowd thronging hastily behind, giving Taunoa the post of honour after Okela.
1	Okela	Okela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Taunoa	Taunoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	preceded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	thronging	throng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
21	Taunoa	Taunoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	iobj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Okela	Okela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · perfect · passive |  | the chief | Taunoa |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to taunoa=Recipient |
| 2 | **proceed** | past |  | the crowd |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throng** | gerund | the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | the crowd *not said here* | the post of honour | Taunoa |  | after Okela |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taunoa=Recipient post=Theme |

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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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