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title: At the time when our story opens Ka-meha-meha’s attack had been repu… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At the time when our story opens Ka-meha-meha’s attack had been repulsed with fearful loss on the part of his followers. Who acts: story, 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 59

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At the time when our story opens Ka-meha-meha’s attack had been repulsed with fearful loss on the part of his followers.

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**Who acts:** story, Ka · **What happens:** open, repulse, attack · **To what, where:** attack

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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 (story, 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:pg66357:18:59
# text = At the time when our story opens Ka-meha-meha’s attack had been repulsed with fearful loss on the part of his followers.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	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	8	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
14	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	repulsed	repulse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | our story |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **repulse** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ka's attack |  |  |  | with fearful loss on the part of Ka's followers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **attack** |  | Ka |  |  |  |  |  | nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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