Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 15
The cession of the Kua-loa lands, with this temple, would be a very satisfactory partial recompense.
Who acts: cession · What happens: be, cede · To what, where: satisfactory partial recompense, Kua loa lands
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 (cession), 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 cession | det |
| 2 | cession | cession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recompense | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lands | det |
| 5 | Kua | Kua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lands | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kua | punct |
| 7 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lands | compound |
| 8 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cession | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 temple | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 temple | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 temple | det |
| 12 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lands | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cession | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 recompense | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 recompense | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 recompense | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 satisfactory | advmod |
| 18 | satisfactory | satisfactory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 recompense | amod |
| 19 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 recompense | amod |
| 20 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 recompense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | the cession of the Kua loa lands and this temple | a satisfactory partial recompense | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cede | the Kua loa lands and this temple | nom cession «act 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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