Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 95
The two kings met on Molokai and spent days in royal entertainments.
Who acts: two kings · What happens: meet, spend · To what, where: two kings, Molokai, royal entertainments
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 (two kings), 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 kings | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kings | nummod |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kings | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Molokai | case |
| 6 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 met | cc |
| 8 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spent | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 entertainments | case |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 entertainments | amod |
| 12 | entertainments | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spent | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | participle | the two kings not said here | Molokai | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | the two kings | royal entertainments | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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