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title: When Ka-ahu-manu returned to the king’s houses she kept these things… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ka-ahu-manu returned to the king’s houses she kept these things in her heart. Who acts: Ka ahu manu. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 46

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When Ka-ahu-manu returned to the king’s houses she kept these things in her heart.

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**Who acts:** Ka ahu manu · **What happens:** return, keep · **To what, where:** Ka ahu manu, things, heart

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka ahu manu), 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:pg66357:19:46
# text = When Ka-ahu-manu returned to the king’s houses she kept these things in her heart.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ahu	ahu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	manu	manu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | participle |  | Ka ahu manu *not said here* |  |  |  | to the king's houses *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Ka ahu manu | this things |  | manu's heart |  | manu *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in heart=Location |

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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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