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title: While he granted to the king civil authority, he retained absolutely… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: While he granted to the king civil authority, he retained absolutely independent control over the minds of the chiefs and the people in religious matters. Who acts: Paao. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 229

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While he granted to the king civil authority, he retained absolutely independent control over the minds of the chiefs and the people in religious matters.

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**Who acts:** Paao · **What happens:** grant, retain, mind · **To what, where:** king civil authority, independent control, minds, chiefs

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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 (Paao), 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:pg66357:8:229
# text = While he granted to the king civil authority, he retained absolutely independent control over the minds of the chiefs and the people in religious matters.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past | Paao |  |  |  |  | to the king civil authority *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to authority=Goal |
| 2 | **retain** | past | Paao | independent control |  | the minds of the chiefs and the people in religious matters |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mind** |  |  | the chiefs and the people in religious matters |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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