---
title: This gave Ka-meha-meha a vast advantage over the antagonistic kings… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This gave Ka-meha-meha a vast advantage over the antagonistic kings and chiefs of his own and other islands. Who acts: This. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/153/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Law of the Splintered Paddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/) / 153

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 153

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
This gave Ka-meha-meha a vast advantage over the antagonistic kings and chiefs of his own and other islands.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** vast advantage, Ka

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:18:153
# text = This gave Ka-meha-meha a vast advantage over the antagonistic kings and chiefs of his own and other islands.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	antagonistic	antagonistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | This | a vast advantage | Ka |  |  | over the antagonistic kings and chiefs of Ka's own islands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ka=Recipient advantage=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/152/)
- next →: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/154/)
- ↑ back to [The Law of the Splintered Paddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/18/)