Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 30

The old astrologer and sailor, Kama-hua-lele, who had come from Tahiti with Moi-keha, was selected to be the guardian of the young chiefs and pilot of the expedition.

Who acts: Kama hua lele · What happens: come, select, be · To what, where: Tahiti, old astrologer, guardian

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kama hua lele), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 astrologer	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 astrologer	amod
3	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 selected	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sailor	cc
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 astrologer	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lele	punct
7	Kama	Kama	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lele	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Kama	punct
9	hua	hua	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lele	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hua	punct
11	lele	lele	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 astrologer	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 come	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 lele	acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Tahiti	case
17	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 Moi	case
19	Moi	Moi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 keha	punct
21	keha	keha	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Moi	dep
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 astrologer	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 selected	aux:pass
24	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	28 guardian	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 guardian	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 guardian	det
28	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 selected	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 chiefs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 chiefs	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 chiefs	amod
32	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 guardian	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pilot	cc
34	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chiefs	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 expedition	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 expedition	det
37	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pilot	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Kama hua lele		Tahiti	with Moi	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tahiti=Initial_Location
2	select	past · passive		the old astrologer and sailor and Kama hua lele			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		the guardian		of the young chiefs and pilot of the expedition	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 30

The tree

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 30