Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 85
Moho, putting his hand in his malo, drew out a piece of a broken calabash and held it out like the foreigners, saying: “A hikapalale, hikapalale, hioluio, oalaki, walawalaki, waiki, poha, aloha kahiki, aloha haehae, aloha ka wahine, aloha ke keiki, aloha ka hale.”
Who acts: Moho · What happens: put, draw out, break, hold out, say · To what, where: hand, malo, piece, calabash, hikapalale · 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 (Moho), 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 | Moho | Moho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moho | punct |
| 3 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Moho | acl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 putting | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 malo | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 malo | nmod:poss |
| 8 | malo | malo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 putting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moho | punct |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 drew | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 calabash | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 calabash | det |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 calabash | amod |
| 17 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 held | cc |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 held | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 held | compound:prt |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 foreigners | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foreigners | det |
| 24 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 held | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 held | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 hikapalale | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 hikapalale | punct |
| 29 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hikapalale | det |
| 30 | hikapalale | hikapalale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saying | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hikapalale | punct |
| 32 | hikapalale | hikapalale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hioluio | punct |
| 34 | hioluio | hioluio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 oalaki | punct |
| 36 | oalaki | oalaki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 walawalaki | punct |
| 38 | walawalaki | walawalaki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 waiki | punct |
| 40 | waiki | waiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 poha | punct |
| 42 | poha | poha | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 aloha | punct |
| 44 | aloha | aloha | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 45 | kahiki | kahiki | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 aloha | flat:foreign |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 aloha | punct |
| 47 | aloha | aloha | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 48 | haehae | haehae | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 aloha | flat:foreign |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 aloha | punct |
| 50 | aloha | aloha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 51 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 52 wahine | compound |
| 52 | wahine | wahine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 aloha | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 keiki | punct |
| 54 | aloha | aloha | X | _ | 56 keiki | compound |
| 55 | ke | ke | X | _ | 56 keiki | compound |
| 56 | keiki | keiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 wahine | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 aloha | punct |
| 58 | aloha | aloha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hikapalale | conj |
| 59 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 60 hale | advmod |
| 60 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 aloha | amod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 hikapalale | punct |
| 62 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 hikapalale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | Moho not said here | Moho's hand | Moho's malo | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in malo=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw out | past | Moho | a piece of a broken calabash | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hold out | past | Moho not said here | calabash | like the foreigners | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Moho not said here | a hikapalale and hikapalale and hioluio and oalaki and walawalaki and waiki and aloha and ka wahine and aloha ke keiki and aloha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hikapalale=Topic |
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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