---
title: But Paao knew the inherent reverence of the Polynesians for blood-ro… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But Paao knew the inherent reverence of the Polynesians for blood-royal. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/213/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [Paao From Samoa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/) / 213

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 213

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But Paao knew the inherent reverence of the Polynesians for blood-royal.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Paao · **What happens:** know, reverence · **To what, where:** inherent reverence, Polynesians

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:8:213
# text = But Paao knew the inherent reverence of the Polynesians for blood-royal.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	inherent	inherent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Paao | the inherent reverence of the Polynesians |  |  |  | for blood royal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reverence=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reverence** |  |  | the Polynesians |  |  |  |  | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/212/)
- next →: [sentence 214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/214/)
- ↑ back to [Paao From Samoa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/)