Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 114
Such preparations, on so large a scale, could not be concealed from Kahekili, king of Maui.
What happens: not conceal · To what, where: Such preparations, Kahekili
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 preparations | amod |
| 2 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scale | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 scale | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 large | advmod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scale | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 scale | det |
| 8 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 preparations | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 preparations | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 concealed | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 concealed | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 concealed | aux:pass |
| 13 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Kahekili | case |
| 15 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 concealed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 king | punct |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Kahekili | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Maui | case |
| 19 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 king | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conceal | could · passive | Such preparations and a large scale | Kahekili | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from kahekili=Beneficiary |
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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