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title: Paao, aided by the Hawaiians, at once built a temple at Wahaula, whi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Paao, aided by the Hawaiians, at once built a temple at Wahaula, which after being twice restored, was destroyed in 1820. 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 147

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Paao, aided by the Hawaiians, at once built a temple at Wahaula, which after being twice restored, was destroyed in 1820.

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**Who acts:** Paao · **What happens:** aid, build, restore, destroy · **To what, where:** temple, Wahaula, 1820

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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:pg66357:8:147
# text = Paao, aided by the Hawaiians, at once built a temple at Wahaula, which after being twice restored, was destroyed in 1820.
1	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Wahaula	Wahaula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1820	1820	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | participle | Paao |  |  |  |  | the Hawaiians *obl:agent* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | past |  | a temple |  | Wahaula |  | once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset temple=Product |
| 3 | **restore** | gerund · passive |  | Wahaula |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | past · passive |  |  |  | 1820 |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |

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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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