Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 4
After many years had gone by the Oahu chiefs deposed their king and drove him away to the island of Kauai.
Who acts: Oahu chiefs · What happens: go, depose, drive away · To what, where: king, island
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 (Oahu chiefs), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 deposed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 8 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chiefs | compound |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deposed | nsubj |
| 10 | deposed | depose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 king | nmod:poss |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deposed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drove | cc |
| 14 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 deposed | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drove | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 drove | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drove | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kauai | case |
| 21 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 island | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | depose | past | the Oahu chiefs | courts's king | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive away | past | the Oahu chiefs not said here | King | the island of Kauai | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to island=Trajectory |
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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