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title: One day Lonopele came to the temple where his brother was making rea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Lonopele came to the temple where his brother was making ready to sacrifice a sacred black hog. Who acts: Lonopele, brother. 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 22

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One day Lonopele came to the temple where his brother was making ready to sacrifice a sacred black hog.

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**Who acts:** Lonopele, brother · **What happens:** come, make, sacrifice · **To what, where:** temple, sacred black hog

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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 (Lonopele, brother), 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:pg66357:8:22
# text = One day Lonopele came to the temple where his brother was making ready to sacrifice a sacred black hog.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Lonopele	Lonopele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Lonopele |  |  | the temple | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past · progressive | Lonopele's brother |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive | Lonopele's brother *not said here* | a sacred black hog |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hog=Theme |

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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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