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title: Early in the morning of the next day the contests were opened by the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the morning of the next day the contests were opened by the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti, who called their best wrestlers together and chose the champions to contest with other champions from other districts. Who acts: chiefs, Tahiti. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends»
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 89

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Early in the morning of the next day the contests were opened by the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti, who called their best wrestlers together and chose the champions to contest with other champions from other districts.

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**Who acts:** chiefs, Tahiti · **What happens:** open, call, choose, contest · **To what, where:** morning, best wrestlers, champions · **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 (chiefs, Tahiti), 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:pg66357:7:89
# text = Early in the morning of the next day the contests were opened by the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti, who called their best wrestlers together and chose the champions to contest with other champions from other districts.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	contests	contest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	wrestlers	wrestler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	contest	contest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive | the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti | the morning of the next day |  |  |  | the contests *nsubj:pass* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | Tahiti | contests's best wrestlers |  |  |  | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wrestler=Recipient |
| 3 | **choose** | past | the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti *not said here* | the champions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **contest** | to-infinitive | the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with other champions from other districts | tree rules |

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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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