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title: The indignation of the queens of Ka-meha-meha was aroused when a pri… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The indignation of the queens of Ka-meha-meha was aroused when a priest commanded that a little girl who had been caught eating bananas should have one of her eyes gouged out. Who acts: priest, eyes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 50

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The indignation of the queens of Ka-meha-meha was aroused when a priest commanded that a little girl who had been caught eating bananas should have one of her eyes gouged out.

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**Who acts:** priest, eyes · **What happens:** arouse, command, catch, eat, have, gouge out · **To what, where:** indignation, priest, little girl, bananas, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (priest, eyes), 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:pg66357:19:50
# text = The indignation of the queens of Ka-meha-meha was aroused when a priest commanded that a little girl who had been caught eating bananas should have one of her eyes gouged out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
17	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	gouged	gouge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arouse** | past · passive |  | the indignation of the queens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **command** | participle |  | a priest *not said here* |  |  |  | a little girl *advcl* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | a little girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund |  | bananas |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | should | a priest | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 6 | **gouge out** | past | manu's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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