Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 78
Kahahana and the chiefs of Oahu readily accepted the views of the high priest and decided that they could not accede to the demands of Kahekili.
Who acts: Kahahana, views · What happens: accept, decide, not accede, view, demand · To what, where: views, high priest, Kahekili · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kahahana, views), 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 | 8 accepted | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chiefs | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kahahana | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Oahu | case |
| 6 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chiefs | nmod |
| 7 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 8 accepted | advmod |
| 8 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 views | det |
| 10 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 accepted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 priest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 priest | amod |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 views | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 decided | cc |
| 16 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accepted | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 accede | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 accede | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 accede | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 accede | advmod |
| 21 | accede | accede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decided | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 demands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 demands | det |
| 24 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 accede | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Kahekili | case |
| 26 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 demands | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | Kahahana and the chiefs of Oahu | the views of the high priest | readily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | |||
| 2 | decide | past | Kahahana and the chiefs of Oahu not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not accede | could | views = view | to the demands of Kahekili | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to demand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | view | the high priest | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | demand | Kahekili | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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