Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 3

While still a child, he was sent to Maui to pass the years of his young manhood in close contact with one of the most noted courts among the different island kings—the court of his relative, Kahekili.

What happens: send, pass, note · To what, where: Kahahana, Maui, close contact

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: 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 child	mark
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 child	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux:pass
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Maui	case
10	Maui	Maui	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pass	mark
12	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sent	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 years	det
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pass	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 manhood	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 manhood	nmod:poss
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 manhood	amod
18	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 years	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 contact	case
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 contact	amod
21	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pass	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 contact	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 courts	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 courts	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 noted	advmod
27	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 courts	amod
28	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
29	among	among	ADP	_	33 kings	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 kings	det
31	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 kings	amod
32	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kings	compound
33	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pass	obl
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 court	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 court	det
36	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kings	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 relative	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 relative	nmod:poss
39	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 court	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Kahekili	punct
41	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 relative	appos
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive	Kahahana	Maui			a child advcl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to maui=Destination
2	pass	to-infinitive			close contact with one of the noted courts	year	among the different island kings	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in contact=Location
3	note	participle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 3

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 3