Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 91
Oahu had maintained sovereignty over Molokai for some time, therefore the dedication of a heiau of any importance was in the hands of the king as the person of highest and most sacred rank.
Who acts: Oahu, dedication · What happens: maintain, be · To what, where: sovereignty, Molokai, hands
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 (Oahu, dedication), 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 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 maintained | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 maintained | aux |
| 3 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maintained | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 Molokai | case |
| 6 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 maintained | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maintained | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dedication | punct |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 dedication | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dedication | det |
| 13 | dedication | dedication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hands | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 heiau | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 heiau | det |
| 16 | heiau | heiau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dedication | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 importance | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 importance | det |
| 19 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heiau | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hands | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hands | det |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 maintained | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hands | nmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 person | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 person | det |
| 29 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 highest | case |
| 31 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 person | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rank | cc |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 sacred | advmod |
| 34 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 rank | amod |
| 35 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 highest | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past · perfect | Oahu | sovereignty | Molokai | time | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | the dedication of a heiau of any importance | the hands | of the king as the person of highest and sacred rank | 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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