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title: Paao robed himself in a high-priest’s tabu mantle of black feathers,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Paao robed himself in a high-priest’s tabu mantle of black feathers, wearing a white helmet ornamented with black plumes. Who acts: Paao. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 136

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Paao robed himself in a high-priest’s tabu mantle of black feathers, wearing a white helmet ornamented with black plumes.

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**Who acts:** Paao · **What happens:** robe, wear, ornament · **To what, where:** Paao, white helmet

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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:pg66357:8:136
# text = Paao robed himself in a high-priest’s tabu mantle of black feathers, wearing a white helmet ornamented with black plumes.
1	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	robed	robe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **robe** | past | Paao | Paao |  |  |  | in a high priest's tabu mantle of black feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in mantle=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | Paao *not said here* | a white helmet |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 3 | **ornament** | participle |  | a white helmet *not said here* |  |  |  | with black plumes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plume=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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