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title: Ka-meha-meha soon followed them, and during the next three years, st… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-meha-meha soon followed them, and during the next three years, step by step, passed over the islands until the kingdom was his. Who acts: Ka, step. 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 83

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Ka-meha-meha soon followed them, and during the next three years, step by step, passed over the islands until the kingdom was his.

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**Who acts:** Ka, step · **What happens:** follow, pass, be, step · **To what, where:** gunners, islands, fleet

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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 (Ka, step), 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:pg66357:17:83
# text = Ka-meha-meha soon followed them, and during the next three years, step by step, passed over the islands until the kingdom was his.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Ka | gunners *= gunner* |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | Ka *not said here* |  |  | the islands | until the kingdom; year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over island=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | fleet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** |  | step |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: by=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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