Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 58
Then arose Ka-o-pulu-pulu, the high priest of Oahu, one of the most far-seeing and statesman-like men in all the islands.
What happens: arise, see · To what, where: Ka, like men, islands
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 arose | advmod |
| 2 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arose | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulu | punct |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 pulu | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 o | punct |
| 7 | pulu | pulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pulu | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulu | punct |
| 9 | pulu | pulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ka | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 priest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 priest | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 priest | amod |
| 13 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ka | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Oahu | case |
| 15 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 priest | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 arose | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeing | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 seeing | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 far | advmod |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 seeing | advmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 far | punct |
| 23 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 one | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 men | cc |
| 25 | statesman | statesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 like | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 statesman | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seeing | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 islands | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 islands | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 islands | det |
| 32 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 men | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Ka and pulu pulu | then | one advcl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ka=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | like men | all islands | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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