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title: Then it passed with Ka-meha-meha from island to island as he conquer… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it passed with Ka-meha-meha from island to island as he conquered the high chiefs and became the sole ruler of the group. Who acts: flag, Ka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 20

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Then it passed with Ka-meha-meha from island to island as he conquered the high chiefs and became the sole ruler of the group.

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**Who acts:** flag, Ka · **What happens:** pass, conquer, become · **To what, where:** Ka, island, high chiefs, sole ruler

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flag, Ka), 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:pg66357:22:20
# text = Then it passed with Ka-meha-meha from island to island as he conquered the high chiefs and became the sole ruler of the group.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | flag | Ka |  | island to island | then |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ka=Theme from island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **conquer** | past | Ka | the high chiefs |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | Ka *not said here* | the sole ruler of the group |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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