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title: Ka-meha-meha knew how unreasonably wilful he had been in forbidding… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-meha-meha knew how unreasonably wilful he had been in forbidding his steersman to join in the pursuit, and therefore felt the injustice of permitting him to be punished. Who acts: Ka, injustice. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, wit
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 123

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Ka-meha-meha knew how unreasonably wilful he had been in forbidding his steersman to join in the pursuit, and therefore felt the injustice of permitting him to be punished.

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**Who acts:** Ka, injustice · **What happens:** know, forbid, join, feel, permit, punish · **To what, where:** steersman, injustice, Ka · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, injustice), 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:pg66357:18:123
# text = Ka-meha-meha knew how unreasonably wilful he had been in forbidding his steersman to join in the pursuit, and therefore felt the injustice of permitting him to be punished.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	unreasonably	unreasonably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wilful	wilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	steersman	steersman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	permitting	permit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Ka |  |  |  |  | wilful *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forbid** | past · perfect · progressive | Ka | Ka's steersman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | to-infinitive | Ka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the pursuit | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pursuit=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past |  | the injustice |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme |
| 5 | **permit** | gerund | the injustice *not said here* | Ka |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **punish** | to-infinitive · passive | the injustice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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