Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 63
Kua-loa with the temple and the lands surrounding it was, in reality, one of the most sacred places in the islands.
Who acts: lands, Kua loa · What happens: surround, be · To what, where: loa, reality
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 (lands, Kua loa), 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 | Kua | Kua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kua | punct |
| 3 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reality | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loa | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lands | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lands | det |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 temple | conj |
| 10 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lands | acl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 surrounding | obj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reality | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reality | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 reality | case |
| 15 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 reality | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 places | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 places | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 sacred | advmod |
| 21 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 places | amod |
| 22 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 islands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 islands | det |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 places | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reality | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | gerund | the lands not said here | loa | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kua loa with the temple and the lands | reality | one of the sacred places in the islands appos | tree rules |
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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