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title: The Nanaulu line maintained its independence through all the centuri… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nanaulu line maintained its independence through all the centuries, until it was finally absorbed by the Ka-meha-meha family. Who acts: Nanaulu line, Ka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 157

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The Nanaulu line maintained its independence through all the centuries, until it was finally absorbed by the Ka-meha-meha family.

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**Who acts:** Nanaulu line, Ka · **What happens:** maintain, absorb · **To what, where:** independence, line

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanaulu line, 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:pg66357:8:157
# text = The Nanaulu line maintained its independence through all the centuries, until it was finally absorbed by the Ka-meha-meha family.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	meha	meha	X	FW	_	24	compound	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | past | the Nanaulu line | line's independence |  |  | century |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 2 | **absorb** | past · passive | the Ka and meha family | line |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal subject=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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