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title: The priest and the king stand out from the mists of the past, repres… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The priest and the king stand out from the mists of the past, representing two great forces of Hawaiian government—the religious and the civil. Who acts: priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 226

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The priest and the king stand out from the mists of the past, representing two great forces of Hawaiian government—the religious and the civil.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** stand out, represent, mist · **To what, where:** mists, two great forces, past

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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 (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:pg66357:8:226
# text = The priest and the king stand out from the mists of the past, representing two great forces of Hawaiian government—the religious and the civil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand out** | infinitive | the priest and the king |  |  | the mists of the past |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund | the priest and the king *not said here* | two great forces of Hawaiian government |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot force=Theme |
| 3 | **mist** |  |  | the past |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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