Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 102
Thus he began the distrust which was to lead Kahahana to ultimately destroy this wise and loyal high priest.
Who acts: Kahekili, distrust · What happens: begin, be, destroy · To what, where: distrust, high priest
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, distrust), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 distrust | det |
| 5 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lead | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lead | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lead | mark |
| 9 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 distrust | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lead | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 destroy | mark |
| 12 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 13 destroy | advmod |
| 13 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lead | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 priest | det |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 high | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loyal | cc |
| 17 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wise | conj |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 priest | amod |
| 19 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destroy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Kahekili | the distrust | thus property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distrust=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | the distrust | the distrust not said here | Kahahana obj; lead property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | the distrust not said here | this high priest | ultimately property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=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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