Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 98
At one time, apparently as an offset to the sacred lands which he did not get, he asked for the large and fertile tract of land on Molokai known as the lands of Halawa.
Who acts: King · What happens: not get, ask, know · To what, where: sacred lands, land
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 (King), 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 time | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 offset | punct |
| 5 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 8 offset | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 offset | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 offset | det |
| 8 | offset | offset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 lands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lands | det |
| 11 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lands | amod |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 offset | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 get | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lands | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 tract | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tract | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tract | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fertile | cc |
| 25 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 large | conj |
| 26 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tract | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 Molokai | case |
| 30 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 land | nmod |
| 31 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 land | acl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 lands | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lands | det |
| 34 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 known | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Halawa | case |
| 36 | Halawa | Halawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 lands | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past · do-support | King | the sacred lands | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King | time | for the large tract of land on Molokai | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | know | participle | land on Molokai not said here | as the lands of Halawa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as land=Attribute |
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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