Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 101
He told Kahahana that the prophet, while pretending to be friendly to Oahu, had at the same time offered the entire government of Oahu to himself.
Who acts: Kahekili, same time · What happens: tell, pretend, be, have, offer · To what, where: Kahahana, Oahu, entire government, Kahekili · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kahekili, same time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 prophet | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prophet | det |
| 6 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretending | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 pretending | mark |
| 9 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 friendly | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 friendly | cop |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pretending | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Oahu | case |
| 14 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 friendly | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 offered | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offered | nsubj |
| 21 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 government | det |
| 23 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 government | amod |
| 24 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offered | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Oahu | case |
| 26 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 government | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 himself | case |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 offered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Kahekili | Kahahana | the prophet ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kahahana=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | Kahekili not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Kahekili not said here | Oahu | friendly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | offer | past | the same time | the entire government of Oahu | Kahekili | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent government=Theme to himself=Goal |
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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