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title: At that time Ka-ahu-manu proposed that they henceforth disregard the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time Ka-ahu-manu proposed that they henceforth disregard the tabus. Who acts: temples. 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 64

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At that time Ka-ahu-manu proposed that they henceforth disregard the tabus.

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**Who acts:** temples · **What happens:** propose, disregard · **To what, where:** ahu manu, tabus

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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 (temples), 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:pg66357:19:64
# text = At that time Ka-ahu-manu proposed that they henceforth disregard the tabus.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ahu	ahu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	manu	manu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	disregard	disregard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tabus	tabus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **propose** | participle |  | ahu manu at that time  Ka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **disregard** | present | temples *= temple* | the tabus |  |  |  | henceforth *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabus=Theme |

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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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