Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 1
The story of the ivory of Oahu is a tale of treachery and triumph on the part of Kahekili, King of Maui, and of defeat and death for Kahahana, the last independent king of Oahu.
Who acts: story · What happens: be · To what, where: tale
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ivory | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ivory | det |
| 5 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Oahu | case |
| 7 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ivory | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tale | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 treachery | case |
| 12 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 triumph | cc |
| 14 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 triumph | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Kahekili | case |
| 19 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 King | punct |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Kahekili | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Maui | case |
| 23 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 defeat | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 defeat | cc |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 defeat | case |
| 27 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 death | cc |
| 29 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 defeat | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Kahahana | case |
| 31 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 defeat | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 king | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 king | amod |
| 35 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 king | amod |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Kahahana | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Oahu | case |
| 38 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 king | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the story of the ivory of Oahu | a tale and triumph on the part of Kahekili and defeat for Kahahana and death | of treachery; triumph on the part of Kahekili conj; defeat for Kahahana and death conj | 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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