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title: But this revealed them at once to Ka-meha-meha, and he approached th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But this revealed them at once to Ka-meha-meha, and he approached them with the command to raise their heads. Who acts: this, 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 183

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But this revealed them at once to Ka-meha-meha, and he approached them with the command to raise their heads.

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**Who acts:** this, Ka · **What happens:** reveal, approach, raise · **To what, where:** prisoners, Ka, heads

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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 (this, 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:pg66357:18:183
# text = But this revealed them at once to Ka-meha-meha, and he approached them with the command to raise their heads.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reveal** | past | this | prisoners *= prisoner* | Ka |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to ka=Recipient |
| 2 | **approach** | past | Ka | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  |  | with the command | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme with command=Instrument |
| 3 | **raise** | to-infinitive | Ka *not said here* | prisoners's heads |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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