Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 96
At the advice of his high priest, the Maui king craftily set to work to undermine Kahahana’s faith in the Oahu priesthood.
What happens: work, undermine · To what, where: faith, Oahu priesthood, craftily set
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 advice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 advice | det |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 priest | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 priest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 priest | amod |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advice | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 advice | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj |
| 12 | craftily | craftily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | amod |
| 13 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 undermine | mark |
| 17 | undermine | undermine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | xcomp |
| 18 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 faith | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Kahahana | case |
| 20 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 undermine | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 priesthood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 priesthood | det |
| 23 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 priesthood | compound |
| 24 | priesthood | priesthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 faith | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | to-infinitive | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | undermine | to-infinitive | Kahahana's faith | the Oahu priesthood | 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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