Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 125
Ka-leo-puu-puu was able to prove beyond question that the mantle of priesthood had never passed out of the family since the days of Pau-makua of the eleventh century.
Who acts: Ka, question · What happens: be, prove, not pass out · To what, where: mantle, family
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 (Ka, question), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 able | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | leo | leo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 leo | punct |
| 5 | puu | puu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puu | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 puu | punct |
| 7 | puu | puu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 able | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 prove | mark |
| 11 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 question | case |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prove | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 passed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mantle | det |
| 16 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 priesthood | case |
| 18 | priesthood | priesthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mantle | nmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passed | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 passed | advmod |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 question | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 family | det |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 26 | since | since | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 days | det |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 prove | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 makua | case |
| 30 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 makua | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Pau | punct |
| 32 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 days | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 century | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 century | det |
| 35 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 century | amod |
| 36 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 makua | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ka | puu puu nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | Ka not said here | day | beyond question | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not pass out | past · perfect · passive | question not said here | the mantle of priesthood | the family | 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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