Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 97
While the kings visited and feasted together, Kahekili, from time to time, introduced remarks concerning the way he was treated in the matter of the ivory of Oahu.
Who acts: kings, introduced remarks, way, ivory · What happens: visit, feast, introduce, concern, treat, matter · To what, where: Kahekili, way, King, matter
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 (kings, introduced remarks, way, ivory), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 visited | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kings | det |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 visited | nsubj |
| 4 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 feasted | cc |
| 6 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 visited | conj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 feasted | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kahekili | punct |
| 9 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 feasted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feasted | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remarks | punct |
| 16 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 remarks | amod |
| 17 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 time | conj |
| 18 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 remarks | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 concerning | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 treated | aux:pass |
| 23 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 way | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 matter | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 matter | det |
| 26 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 treated | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ivory | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ivory | det |
| 29 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 matter | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Oahu | case |
| 31 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 ivory | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | the kings | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feast | past | the kings not said here | Kahekili | time | together property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | introduce | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | concern | gerund | introduced remarks not said here | the way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | treat | past · passive | the way not said here | King | the matter of the ivory of Oahu | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 6 | matter | the ivory of Oahu | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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