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title: After Ka-meha-meha returned from his Puna excursion he rested for a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After Ka-meha-meha returned from his Puna excursion he rested for a time. Who acts: Ka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 139

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After Ka-meha-meha returned from his Puna excursion he rested for a time.

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**Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** return, rest · **To what, where:** Puna excursion

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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), 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:pg66357:18:139
# text = After Ka-meha-meha returned from his Puna excursion he rested for a time.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	excursion	excursion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | participle |  |  |  | Ka's Puna excursion | after Ka |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from excursion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rest** | past | Ka | Ka's Puna excursion *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location excursion=Theme |

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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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