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title: They show that you must gather the chiefs upon whom you can depend a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They show that you must gather the chiefs upon whom you can depend and have the hard wood prepared for making spears.” Who acts: gods, you. 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 199

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They show that you must gather the chiefs upon whom you can depend and have the hard wood prepared for making spears.”

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**Who acts:** gods, you · **What happens:** show, gather, depend, have, prepare, make · **To what, where:** chiefs, hard wood, spears · **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 (gods, you), 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:pg66357:8:199
# text = They show that you must gather the chiefs upon whom you can depend and have the hard wood prepared for making spears.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	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 | **show** | present | gods *= god* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gather** | must | you | the chiefs |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |
| 3 | **depend** | can | you |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the hard wood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 5 | **prepare** | participle |  | the hard wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | gerund |  | spears |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spear=Product |

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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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