Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 25

Kahekili and his ready followers argued that as a slight return for the royal favour which had been shown to Kahahana in caring for him at court and in permitting his wife to go with him, he could very readily covenant to bestow upon Kahekili all the ivory which might be found on the shores of Oahu.

Who acts: Kahekili · What happens: argue, show, care, permit, go, covenant · To what, where: royal favour, Kahahana, court, wife, ivory, shores · 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

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The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 argued	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 followers	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 followers	nmod:poss
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 followers	amod
5	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kahekili	conj
6	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 covenant	mark
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 return	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 return	det
10	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 return	amod
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 covenant	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 favour	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 favour	det
14	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 favour	amod
15	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 shown	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shown	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 shown	aux:pass
19	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 favour	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Kahahana	case
21	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 shown	obl
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 caring	mark
23	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 shown	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caring	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 court	case
27	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caring	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 permitting	cc
29	in	in	SCONJ	_	30 permitting	mark
30	permitting	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 caring	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 permitting	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 permitting	advcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 go	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 covenant	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 covenant	aux
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 readily	advmod
41	readily	readily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 covenant	amod
42	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 argued	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 bestow	mark
44	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 covenant	acl
45	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 Kahekili	case
46	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 bestow	obl
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 ivory	det:predet
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ivory	det
49	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bestow	obj
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 found	nsubj:pass
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 found	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 found	aux:pass
53	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 ivory	acl:relcl
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 shores	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 shores	det
56	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 found	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 Oahu	case
58	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 shores	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	Kahekili and Kahekili's ready followers					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	past · perfect · passive		the royal favour	Kahahana			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to kahahana=Recipient
3	care	gerund				court	for Kahekili	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
4	permit	gerund		Kahekili's wife				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
5	go	to-infinitive					with Kahekili	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
6	covenant	could	Kahekili				as a slight return for the royal favour	tree rules
7	bestow	to-infinitive	Kahekili and Kahekili's ready followers not said here	all ivory			upon Kahekili	tree rules
8	find	might · passive		all ivory		the shores of Oahu		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 25