Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 25
These white citizens came to the islands in the reign of Ke-alii-o-ka-loa, who was born about A.D.
Who acts: white citizens · What happens: come, bear · To what, where: islands, ka loa
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white citizens), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 citizens | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 citizens | amod |
| 3 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 islands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 islands | det |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 reign | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reign | det |
| 10 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 islands | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ke | case |
| 12 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reign | nmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 alii | punct |
| 14 | alii | alii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ke | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 loa | punct |
| 16 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 loa | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 o | punct |
| 18 | ka | ka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loa | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ka | punct |
| 20 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Ke | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 born | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux:pass |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 loa | acl:relcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 A.D | case |
| 26 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 born | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this white citizens | the islands in the reign of Ke and alii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | ka loa | about A.D | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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