--- title: The king, Ka-meha-meha III, meanwhile made earnest protest and plann… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: The king, Ka-meha-meha III, meanwhile made earnest protest and planned resistance, but his wise counsellors persuaded him not to give Lord Paulet any pretext for action, but to forestall him by making a provisional cession of the kingdom pending the appeal to the protection of the United States and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/62/) [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/) / [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/) / 62 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 62 The king, Ka-meha-meha III, meanwhile made earnest protest and planned resistance, but his wise counsellors persuaded him not to give Lord Paulet any pretext for action, but to forestall him by making a provisional cession of the kingdom pending the appeal to the protection of the United States and England. **Who acts:** king, wise counsellors · **What happens:** make, plan, persuade, not give, forestall, pend · **To what, where:** earnest protest, resistance, king, pretext, Lord, provisional cession 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 (king, wise counsellors), 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:pg66357:22:62 # text = The king, Ka-meha-meha III, meanwhile made earnest protest and planned resistance, but his wise counsellors persuaded him not to give Lord Paulet any pretext for action, but to forestall him by making a provisional cession of the kingdom pending the appeal to the protection of the United States and England. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 meha meha X FW Foreign=Yes 4 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 meha meha X FW Foreign=Yes 6 flat:foreign _ _ 9 III III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 earnest earn ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 planned plan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 resistance resistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 counsellors counsellor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 persuaded persuade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 28 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 iobj _ _ 29 Paulet Paulet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 pretext pretext NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 forestall forestall VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 by by SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 provisional provisional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 cession cession NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 pending pend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 appeal appeal NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | the king | earnest protest | | | | meanwhile *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protest=Product | | 2 | **plan** | past | the king *not said here* | resistance | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Topic | | 3 | **persuade** | past | king's wise counsellors | king | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | | 4 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | king's wise counsellors *not said here* | any pretext | Lord | | | for action | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient pretext=Theme for action=Asset | | 5 | **forestall** | to-infinitive | | king | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | gerund | | a provisional cession of the kingdom | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cession=Product | | 7 | **pend** | gerund | | the appeal | | | | to the protection of the United States and England | tree rules | | 8 | **cede** | | | the kingdom | | | | | nom cession «act transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **protect** | | | the United States and England | | | | | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/63/) - ↑ back to [The Hawaiian Flag](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/)