Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 81
In this way friendly relations and a state of peace would be maintained between the islands of Oahu and Maui.
What happens: maintain · To what, where: friendly relations, way
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maintained | obl |
| 4 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relations | amod |
| 5 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 maintained | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 state | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 relations | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 peace | case |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 maintained | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 maintained | aux:pass |
| 13 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 maintained | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Oahu | case |
| 18 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 islands | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Maui | cc |
| 20 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Oahu | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | would · passive | friendly relations and a state of peace | this way | between the islands of Oahu and Maui | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme |
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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