Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 42
At this time he broached the agreement he had entered into with Kahekili concerning the ivory of Oahu and the temple lands of Kualoa.
Who acts: Kahahana, Kahekili · What happens: broach, enter, concern · To what, where: agreement, ivory
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 (Kahahana, Kahekili), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broached | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 broached | nsubj |
| 5 | broached | broach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 agreement | det |
| 7 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broached | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 entered | aux |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 agreement | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 14 concerning | mark |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 concerning | mark |
| 13 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 concerning | nsubj |
| 14 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 entered | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ivory | det |
| 16 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concerning | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Oahu | case |
| 18 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ivory | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lands | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lands | det |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lands | compound |
| 22 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Oahu | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Kualoa | case |
| 24 | Kualoa | Kualoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 lands | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broach | past | Kahahana | the agreement | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect | Kahahana | the agreement not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme agreement=Destination | ||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | Kahekili | the ivory of Oahu and the temple lands of Kualoa | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ivory=Experiencer |
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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