Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 138
It was in this year that King George’s dark-skinned brother in ambition, Ka-lani-opuu, set sail with “a cloud of boats.”
Who acts: world · What happens: be, cloud · To what, where: boats
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 (world), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 year | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 year | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 brother | mark |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 George | nmod:desc |
| 8 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 George | case |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skinned | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dark | punct |
| 12 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ambition | case |
| 15 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opuu | punct |
| 17 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 opuu | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ka | punct |
| 19 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opuu | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 lani | punct |
| 21 | opuu | opuu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sail | punct |
| 23 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sail | amod |
| 24 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 cloud | case |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 cloud | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cloud | det |
| 28 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sail | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 boats | case |
| 30 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cloud | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sail | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | world | in this year | George King's skinned brother in ambition and Ka lani opuu advcl; set sail with a cloud of boats parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cloud in a quote | boats | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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