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title: After the death of Captain Cook in 1779 Ka-meha-meha was slowly gain… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After the death of Captain Cook in 1779 Ka-meha-meha was slowly gaining dominion over the large island of Hawaii. Who acts: Ka meha meha, Captain Cook. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 2

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After the death of Captain Cook in 1779 Ka-meha-meha was slowly gaining dominion over the large island of Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Ka meha meha, Captain Cook · **What happens:** gain, die · **To what, where:** dominion

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka meha meha, Captain Cook), 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:pg66357:16:2
# text = After the death of Captain Cook in 1779 Ka-meha-meha was slowly gaining dominion over the large island of Hawaii.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1779	1779	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
9	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	meha	meha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	meha	meha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	dominion	dominion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past · progressive | Ka meha meha | dominion |  |  | after the death of Captain Cook | over the large island of Hawaii; in 1779; slowly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient dominion=Extent in 1779=Attribute |
| 2 | **die** |  | Captain Cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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