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title: But, like a true man, Ka-meha-meha made this incident the occasion o… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But, like a true man, Ka-meha-meha made this incident the occasion of a decision to neither commit nor permit any more highway robbery in his kingdom. Who acts: true man, decision. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 8

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But, like a true man, Ka-meha-meha made this incident the occasion of a decision to neither commit nor permit any more highway robbery in his kingdom.

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**Who acts:** true man, decision · **What happens:** make, commit, permit, occasion · **To what, where:** incident, more highway robbery, kingdom, decision

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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 (true man, decision), 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:pg66357:18:8
# text = But, like a true man, Ka-meha-meha made this incident the occasion of a decision to neither commit nor permit any more highway robbery in his kingdom.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	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	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
28	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	robbery	robbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | a true man | this incident |  |  |  | the occasion of a decision *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset incident=Beneficiary occasion=Product |
| 2 | **commit** | infinitive | a decision *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **permit** | infinitive | a decision *not said here* | more highway robbery |  | man's kingdom |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robbery=Theme in kingdom=Location |
| 4 | **occasion** |  |  | a decision |  |  |  |  | nom occasion «event 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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