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title: From Paao, the high priest’s family, highest in priestly rank of all… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From Paao, the high priest’s family, highest in priestly rank of all dwelling in the islands, was perpetuated, until Ka-meha-meha’s high priest, Hewa-hewa, a lineal descendant of Paao, in 1819, aided in destroying the temples of the gods. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westerve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 148

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From Paao, the high priest’s family, highest in priestly rank of all dwelling in the islands, was perpetuated, until Ka-meha-meha’s high priest, Hewa-hewa, a lineal descendant of Paao, in 1819, aided in destroying the temples of the gods.

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**What happens:** dwell, perpetuate, aid, destroy · **To what, where:** islands, priestly rank, temples

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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: 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:pg66357:8:148
# text = From Paao, the high priest’s family, highest in priestly rank of all dwelling in the islands, was perpetuated, until Ka-meha-meha’s high priest, Hewa-hewa, a lineal descendant of Paao, in 1819, aided in destroying the temples of the gods.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	priestly	priestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	perpetuated	perpetuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	until	until	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
25	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	Hewa	Hewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	hewa	hewa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	lineal	lineal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	1819	1819	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	aided	aid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
48	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | gerund |  |  |  | the islands |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location |
| 2 | **perpetuate** | past · passive |  |  |  | priestly rank of all | until Ka's high priest | in 1819 | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» |
| 3 | **aid** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund |  | the temples of the gods |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Patient |

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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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