Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 32
The Kalakaua legends say that Kila bore with him a brilliant royal mantle made from the rare feathers of the mamo, and that Moi-keha had been many months in the manufacture of the mantle, assisted by hundreds of bird hunters and skilled workmen.
Who acts: Kalakaua legends, Kila, Moi · What happens: say, bear, make, be, assist, manufacture · To what, where: brilliant royal mantle, rare feathers, many months, manufacture, mantle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kalakaua legends, Kila, Moi), 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 legends | det |
| 2 | Kalakaua | Kalakaua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 legends | compound |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bore | mark |
| 6 | Kila | Kila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | nsubj |
| 7 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bore | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mantle | det |
| 11 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mantle | amod |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mantle | amod |
| 13 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mantle | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 feathers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feathers | det |
| 17 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feathers | amod |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mamo | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mamo | det |
| 21 | mamo | mamo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feathers | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 months | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 months | cc |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 months | mark |
| 25 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 months | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Moi | punct |
| 27 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 Moi | dep |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 months | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 months | cop |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 months | amod |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 manufacture | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 manufacture | det |
| 34 | manufacture | manufacture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 months | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 mantle | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mantle | det |
| 37 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 manufacture | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 assisted | punct |
| 39 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 months | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 hundreds | case |
| 41 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 assisted | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 hunters | case |
| 43 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hunters | compound |
| 44 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 hundreds | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 workmen | cc |
| 46 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 workmen | amod |
| 47 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 hundreds | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Kalakaua legends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bear | past | Kila | a brilliant royal mantle | with Hawaii | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a brilliant royal mantle not said here | the rare feathers of the mamo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from feather=Material | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | Moi | many months | the manufacture of the mantle | tree rules | |||
| 5 | assist | participle | many months not said here | by hundreds of bird hunters and skilled workmen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | manufacture | the mantle | nom manufacture «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.
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