Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 172
The scouts of Maui had faithfully reported the movements of Ka-lani-opuu and the coming of the Alapa high chiefs, giving the Maui king time to select and place his allies from Oahu.
What happens: report, come, give, select, move · To what, where: scouts, allies, Oahu, Ka lani opuu
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scouts | det |
| 2 | scouts | scout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Maui | case |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scouts | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reported | aux |
| 6 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 7 reported | advmod |
| 7 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 movements | det |
| 9 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reported | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 opuu | case |
| 11 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 opuu | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ka | punct |
| 13 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opuu | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lani | punct |
| 15 | opuu | opuu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 movements | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coming | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coming | det |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 opuu | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 chiefs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chiefs | det |
| 21 | Alapa | Alapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 chiefs | compound |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chiefs | amod |
| 23 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 coming | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 giving | punct |
| 25 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 reported | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 27 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 time | compound |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 time | compound |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 select | mark |
| 31 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 time | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 place | cc |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 time | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 allies | nmod:poss |
| 35 | allies | ally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 giving | obj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 Oahu | case |
| 37 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · perfect · passive | the scouts of Maui | the movements of Ka lani opuu obj; faithfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | of the Alapa high chiefs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of chief=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | Maui's allies | Oahu | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Theme | |||
| 4 | select | to-infinitive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | move | Ka lani opuu | nom movement «act 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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