Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 43
For this reason he named his daughter Kua-pahoa, after this knife.
Who acts: Captain · What happens: name · To what, where: daughter
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 (Captain), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 named | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 named | nsubj |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 named | obj |
| 8 | Kua | Kua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pahoa | punct |
| 10 | pahoa | pahoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kua | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knife | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 knife | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 knife | det |
| 14 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 named | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | Captain | Captain's daughter | after this knife | for this reason | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
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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