Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 74
Then a high chiefess, Ka-maka-helei, the mother of Kaumu-alii, the last king of Kauai, said: “Not for war is our god, but we will seek the pleasure of the god.”
Who acts: high chiefess, we · What happens: say, not be, seek, please · To what, where: god, pleasure · 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 (high chiefess, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 chiefess | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chiefess | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chiefess | amod |
| 4 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ka | punct |
| 6 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chiefess | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 maka | punct |
| 8 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Ka | dep |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 helei | punct |
| 10 | helei | helei | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 maka | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mother | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ka | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kaumu | case |
| 15 | Kaumu | Kaumu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mother | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 alii | punct |
| 17 | alii | alii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kaumu | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 king | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 king | amod |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Kaumu | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kauai | case |
| 23 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 king | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chiefess | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 god | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 god | punct |
| 28 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 god | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 war | case |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 god | obl |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 god | cop |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 god | nmod:poss |
| 33 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seek | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 seek | cc |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 seek | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 seek | aux |
| 38 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 god | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pleasure | det |
| 40 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seek | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 god | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 god | det |
| 43 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pleasure | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 seek | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a high chiefess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | our god | for war; our nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | future | we | the pleasure of the god | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | please in a quote | the god | nom pleasure «feeling 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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