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title: Your prophet has said: ‘The cloud of Ka-meha-meha shall rest on the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Your prophet has said: ‘The cloud of Ka-meha-meha shall rest on the mountains of all the islands.’ Who acts: cloud. 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 41

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Your prophet has said: ‘The cloud of Ka-meha-meha shall rest on the mountains of all the islands.’

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**Who acts:** cloud · **What happens:** say, rest, cloud · **To what, where:** prophet, mountains, 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 (cloud), 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:pg66357:18:41
# text = Your prophet has said: ‘The cloud of Ka-meha-meha shall rest on the mountains of all the islands.’
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | Your prophet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | shall | the cloud of Ka |  |  | the mountains of all islands |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |
| 3 | **cloud** |  |  | Ka |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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