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title: The very morning of Ka-meha-meha’s death some chiefs came to Ka-ahu-… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The very morning of Ka-meha-meha’s death some chiefs came to Ka-ahu-manu with the proposition that she use her authority and declare the tabu at an end. Who acts: meha death, death. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 55

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The very morning of Ka-meha-meha’s death some chiefs came to Ka-ahu-manu with the proposition that she use her authority and declare the tabu at an end.

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**Who acts:** meha death, death · **What happens:** come, use, declare · **To what, where:** Ka ahu manu, authority, tabu, end

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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 (meha death, death), 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:pg66357:19:55
# text = The very morning of Ka-meha-meha’s death some chiefs came to Ka-ahu-manu with the proposition that she use her authority and declare the tabu at an end.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ahu	ahu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	manu	manu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	proposition	proposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | meha death |  |  | Ka ahu manu with the proposition |  | some chiefs *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to manu=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive | death | manu's authority |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | death *not said here* | the tabu |  |  | at a end |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabu=Attribute |

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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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