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title: With arms and ammunition and men skilful in gunnery and wise in coun… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With arms and ammunition and men skilful in gunnery and wise in counsel Ka-meha-meha was practically invincible. Who acts: skilful Ka meha meha. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 11

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With arms and ammunition and men skilful in gunnery and wise in counsel Ka-meha-meha was practically invincible.

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**Who acts:** skilful Ka meha meha · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skilful Ka meha meha), 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:pg66357:17:11
# text = With arms and ammunition and men skilful in gunnery and wise in counsel Ka-meha-meha was practically invincible.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ammunition	ammunition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gunnery	gunnery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	meha	meha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	meha	meha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	invincible	invincible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | skilful Ka meha meha |  |  |  |  | with arms and ammunition and men; invincible, practically *property* | 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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