Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 59
He understood the Maui king and his ambitious designs for the conquest of the islands Molokai and Oahu.
Who acts: King · What happens: understand, design · To what, where: Maui king
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 (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | compound |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 understood | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 designs | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 designs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 designs | amod |
| 9 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 king | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 conquest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 conquest | det |
| 12 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 designs | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 islands | det |
| 15 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 conquest | nmod |
| 16 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 islands | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Oahu | cc |
| 18 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Molokai | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | King | the Maui king and King's ambitious designs for the conquest of the islands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | design | King | for the conquest of the islands | nom design «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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