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title: “The bird that speaks” flew to Kapawa with the news that the priest… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “The bird that speaks” flew to Kapawa with the news that the priest from afar was seeking the wisdom of the gods to use against him, and that the chiefs were organising a rebellion. Who acts: bird, priest, chiefs. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 200

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“The bird that speaks” flew to Kapawa with the news that the priest from afar was seeking the wisdom of the gods to use against him, and that the chiefs were organising a rebellion.

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**Who acts:** bird, priest, chiefs · **What happens:** speak, fly, seek, use, organise · **To what, where:** Kapawa, wisdom, rebellion · **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 (bird, priest, chiefs), 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:pg66357:8:200
# text = “The bird that speaks” flew to Kapawa with the news that the priest from afar was seeking the wisdom of the gods to use against him, and that the chiefs were organising a rebellion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kapawa	Kapawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	organising	organise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | the bird |  | Kapawa |  |  | with the news | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kapawa=Result |
| 3 | **seek** | past · progressive | the priest from afar | the wisdom of the gods |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | the priest from afar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against priest | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **organise** | past · progressive | the chiefs | a rebellion |  |  |  |  | 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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