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title: Ka-meha-meha, the most noted person of all Hawaiian history, was a d… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ka-meha-meha, the most noted person of all Hawaiian history, was a descendant in a straight genealogical line from Pili, and Hewa-hewa, the Christian, was the last high priest of the Paao line. Who acts: Ka, descendant. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 230

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Ka-meha-meha, the most noted person of all Hawaiian history, was a descendant in a straight genealogical line from Pili, and Hewa-hewa, the Christian, was the last high priest of the Paao line.

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**Who acts:** Ka, descendant · **What happens:** note, be · **To what, where:** descendant, straight genealogical line, last high priest

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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 (Ka, descendant), 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:pg66357:8:230
# text = Ka-meha-meha, the most noted person of all Hawaiian history, was a descendant in a straight genealogical line from Pili, and Hewa-hewa, the Christian, was the last high priest of the Paao line.
1	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	genealogical	genealogical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Pili	Pili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Hewa	Hewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hewa	hewa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Ka | a descendant and Hewa hewa |  | a straight genealogical line from Pili |  | Hewa hewa *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a descendant and Hewa hewa | the last high priest |  |  |  | of the Paao line | tree rules |

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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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