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title: Ka-ahu-manu’s party of practical unbelievers were under suspicion. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-ahu-manu’s party of practical unbelievers were under suspicion. Who acts: manu party. 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 59

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Ka-ahu-manu’s party of practical unbelievers were under suspicion.

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**Who acts:** manu party · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** suspicion

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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 (manu party), 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:pg66357:19:59
# text = Ka-ahu-manu’s party of practical unbelievers were under suspicion.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ahu	ahu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	manu	manu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	unbelievers	unbeliever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | manu party of practical unbelievers |  |  | suspicion |  |  | tree rules |

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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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