Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 119
Therefore, he had requested the king of Oahu to send the high priest Ka-leo-puu-puu to combat the supernatural powers of the high priest of Hawaii.
Who acts: preparation, high priest · What happens: request, send, puu, combat · To what, where: king, supernatural powers
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: who acts (preparation, high priest), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 requested | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 requested | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 requested | aux |
| 5 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 requested | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Oahu | case |
| 9 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 send | mark |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 requested | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 priest | amod |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 puu | nsubj |
| 15 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 priest | appos |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ka | punct |
| 17 | leo | leo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 puu | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 leo | punct |
| 19 | puu | puu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 puu | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 puu | punct |
| 21 | puu | puu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 combat | mark |
| 23 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 puu | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 powers | det |
| 25 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 powers | amod |
| 26 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 combat | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 priest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 priest | det |
| 29 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 priest | amod |
| 30 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 powers | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Hawaii | case |
| 32 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 priest | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past · perfect | preparation | the king of Oahu | therefore property | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | preparation not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | puu | the high priest | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | combat | to-infinitive | preparation not said here | the supernatural powers of the high priest of Hawaii | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Co-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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