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title: Na-ihe (The spears) was said to be the national orator or best speak… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Na-ihe (The spears) was said to be the national orator or best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 10

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Na-ihe (The spears) was said to be the national orator or best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs.

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**What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Na ihe, national orator · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:23:10
# text = Na-ihe (The spears) was said to be the national orator or best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs.
1	Na	Na	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ihe	ihe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	orator	orator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Na ihe |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the national orator or best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs |  |  |  | best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs *conj* | 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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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