Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 141
Hale-a-ka-la—“House of the sun”—afforded soil sufficient to give life or foothold.
What happens: afford, give · To what, where: life
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 | Hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sufficient | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ka | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ka | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ka | punct |
| 5 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Hale | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 la | punct |
| 7 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 ka | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 House | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 House | punct |
| 10 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 la | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 House | nmod |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 House | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hale | punct |
| 16 | afforded | afford | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 soil | amod |
| 17 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sufficient | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sufficient | xcomp |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 foothold | cc |
| 23 | foothold | foothold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 life | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afford | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | life or foothold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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