Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 14
Ka-kuhi-hewa, ruler of Oahu, was the King Arthur of the Hawaiians, with a band of noted chiefs around his poi-bowl.
Who acts: Ka kuhi hewa · What happens: be, note · To what, where: King Arthur
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka kuhi hewa), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hewa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | kuhi | kuhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hewa | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 kuhi | punct |
| 5 | hewa | hewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Arthur | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruler | punct |
| 7 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hewa | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Oahu | case |
| 9 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruler | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hewa | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Arthur | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Arthur | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Arthur | compound |
| 14 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Hawaiians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hawaiians | det |
| 17 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Arthur | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 band | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 band | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 band | det |
| 21 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hawaiians | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chiefs | case |
| 23 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 chiefs | amod |
| 24 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 band | nmod |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 29 bowl | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 27 | poi | poi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bowl | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 poi | punct |
| 29 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 band | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Arthur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ka kuhi hewa | the King Arthur and the Hawaiians | the Hawaiians conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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.
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