Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 7
The Maui king was wise in his own generation and determined to make all the use possible of this selection.
Who acts: Maui king · What happens: be, make · To what, where: own generation, use
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 (Maui 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wise | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | cop |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 generation | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 generation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 generation | amod |
| 9 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wise | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 determined | cc |
| 11 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wise | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 determined | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 use | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 use | det |
| 16 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 use | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 selection | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 selection | det |
| 20 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 possible | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Maui king | in King's own generation | wise property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the Maui king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the Maui king not said here | all use | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
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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