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title: King Kii was borne on the shoulders of a stalwart slave, supported b… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: King Kii was borne on the shoulders of a stalwart slave, supported by two other slaves, while ranks of trusted chiefs walked by his side. Who acts: ranks. 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 45

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King Kii was borne on the shoulders of a stalwart slave, supported by two other slaves, while ranks of trusted chiefs walked by his side.

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**Who acts:** ranks · **What happens:** bear, support, trust, walk · **To what, where:** King, shoulders

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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 (ranks), 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:pg66357:7:45
# text = King Kii was borne on the shoulders of a stalwart slave, supported by two other slaves, while ranks of trusted chiefs walked by his side.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Kii	Kii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | King |  | the shoulders of a stalwart slave |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **support** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | two other slaves *obl:agent* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk** | past | ranks of trusted chiefs |  |  |  |  | by king's side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |

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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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