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title: One day the district chief of Hilo came to the temple, asking to see… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the district chief of Hilo came to the temple, asking to see “the priest of the brother tongue, who worshipped the two round white gods.” Who acts: district chief, priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 174

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One day the district chief of Hilo came to the temple, asking to see “the priest of the brother tongue, who worshipped the two round white gods.”

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**Who acts:** district chief, priest · **What happens:** come, ask, see, worshipp · **To what, where:** temple, priest, two round white gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (district chief, priest), 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:pg66357:8:174
# text = One day the district chief of Hilo came to the temple, asking to see “the priest of the brother tongue, who worshipped the two round white gods.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	district	district	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
28	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the district chief of Hilo |  |  | the temple | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the district chief of Hilo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the district chief of Hilo *not said here* | the priest of the brother tongue |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer priest=Stimulus |
| 4 | **worshipp** *in a quote* | past | the priest of the brother tongue | the two round white gods |  |  |  |  | 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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