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title: Ka-leo-puu-puu was able to prove beyond question that the mantle of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-leo-puu-puu was able to prove beyond question that the mantle of priesthood had never passed out of the family since the days of Pau-makua of the eleventh century. Who acts: Ka, question. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 125

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Ka-leo-puu-puu was able to prove beyond question that the mantle of priesthood had never passed out of the family since the days of Pau-makua of the eleventh century.

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**Who acts:** Ka, question · **What happens:** be, prove, not pass out · **To what, where:** mantle, family

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, question), 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:pg66357:14:125
# text = Ka-leo-puu-puu was able to prove beyond question that the mantle of priesthood had never passed out of the family since the days of Pau-makua of the eleventh century.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	leo	leo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	puu	puu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	puu	puu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	since	since	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	makua	makua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ka |  |  |  |  | puu puu *nsubj*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | Ka *not said here* |  |  |  | day | beyond question | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **pass out** | past · perfect · passive | question *not said here* | the mantle of priesthood |  | the family |  |  | 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 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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