Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 89
The year after the Battle of the Sand-Hills, Kahekili found an opportunity for making his next move.
Who acts: year, opportunity, Kahekili · What happens: find, make, move · To what, where: opportunity, next move
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 (year, opportunity, Kahekili), 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 | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 Battle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Battle | det |
| 5 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 year | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hills | det |
| 8 | Sand | Sand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hills | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sand | punct |
| 10 | Hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Battle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kahekili | punct |
| 12 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Battle | conj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 opportunity | det |
| 15 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 making | mark |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 opportunity | acl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 move | nmod:poss |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 move | amod |
| 20 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the year after the Battle of the Sand Hills and Kahekili | a opportunity | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a opportunity not said here | Kahekili's next move | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset move=Product | ||||
| 3 | move | Kahekili | nom move «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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