Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 121
Lono went to the western bay Ke-ala-ke-kua and the priest took him into the temple, thinking he was their god.
Who acts: Lono, priest · What happens: go, take, think, be · To what, where: western bay, Lono, temple, god · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lono, priest), 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 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bay | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bay | det |
| 5 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bay | amod |
| 6 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bay | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ke | punct |
| 9 | ala | ala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kua | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ala | punct |
| 11 | ke | ke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kua | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kua | punct |
| 13 | kua | kua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bay | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 priest | det |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thinking | punct |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 took | advcl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 god | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 god | cop |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 god | nmod:poss |
| 27 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thinking | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lono | the western bay and ala ke kua | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bay=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the priest | Lono | the temple | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into temple=Destination | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the priest not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | priest | man's god | man nmod:poss | 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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