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title: He had unified the group under one autocratic government, and had es… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He had unified the group under one autocratic government, and had established the Ka-meha-meha dynasty. 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 160

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He had unified the group under one autocratic government, and had established the Ka-meha-meha dynasty.

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**Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** unify, establish, dynasty · **To what, where:** group

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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:pg66357:18:160
# text = He had unified the group under one autocratic government, and had established the Ka-meha-meha dynasty.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	unified	unify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	autocratic	autocratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	meha	meha	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unify** | past · perfect | Ka | the group |  |  |  | one autocratic government *obl:agent* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient |
| 2 | **establish** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **dynasty** |  | Ka |  |  |  |  |  | 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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