--- title: The king Tamaah-maah (Ka-meha-meha) ordered Boyd, his carpenter, to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: The king Tamaah-maah (Ka-meha-meha) ordered Boyd, his carpenter, to make a loom for Campbell to use in weaving cloth for sails. Who acts: king, Tamaah maah. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/20/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [First Hawaiian Printing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/20/) / 6 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 6 The king Tamaah-maah (Ka-meha-meha) ordered Boyd, his carpenter, to make a loom for Campbell to use in weaving cloth for sails. **Who acts:** king, Tamaah maah · **What happens:** maah, order, make, use, weave · **To what, where:** Boyd, loom, cloth This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Tamaah maah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:20:6 # text = The king Tamaah-maah (Ka-meha-meha) ordered Boyd, his carpenter, to make a loom for Campbell to use in weaving cloth for sails. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Tamaah Tamaah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 maah maah NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 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 7 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 13 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 Boyd Boyd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 carpenter carpenter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 loom loom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Campbell Campbell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 27 in in SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **maah** | | the king | | | | | Ka *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **order** | past | Tamaah maah | | Boyd | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyd=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Tamaah maah *not said here* | a loom | | | | for Campbell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent loom=Material for campbell=Beneficiary | | 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | Tamaah maah *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **weave** | gerund | Tamaah maah *not said here* | cloth | | | | for sails | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloth=Product for sail=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/20/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/20/7/) - ↑ back to [First Hawaiian Printing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/20/)