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title: But the guardian of the war god, Kaili, felt responsibility placed u… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But the guardian of the war god, Kaili, felt responsibility placed upon him by the dying charge of Ka-meha-meha. Who acts: guardian. 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 73

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But the guardian of the war god, Kaili, felt responsibility placed upon him by the dying charge of Ka-meha-meha.

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**Who acts:** guardian · **What happens:** feel, place, die · **To what, where:** responsibility

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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 (guardian), 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:pg66357:19:73
# text = But the guardian of the war god, Kaili, felt responsibility placed upon him by the dying charge of Ka-meha-meha.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Kaili	Kaili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the guardian of the war god | responsibility |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | responsibility *not said here* |  |  |  | upon guardian; by the dying charge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination |
| 3 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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