Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 43
Kahahana was an elected, rather than a hereditary, king of Oahu.
What happens: elect · To what, where: Kahahana
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.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 elected | aux:pass |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 king | cc |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 rather | fixed |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 9 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 king | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hereditary | punct |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elected | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Oahu | case |
| 13 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | past · passive | Kahahana | a hereditary king of Oahu obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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