Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 208
This battle received the name in Hawaiian history—“The furious destruction at Kakanilua”—Kakanilua was the name of the sand hills below Wai-luku.
Who acts: battle, Kakanilua · What happens: receive, be · To what, where: name, Hawaiian history
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 (battle, Kakanilua), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 history | case |
| 7 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 history | compound |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 destruction | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 destruction | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 destruction | det |
| 12 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 destruction | amod |
| 13 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | parataxis |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Kakanilua | case |
| 15 | Kakanilua | Kakanilua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 destruction | nmod |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 destruction | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 name | punct |
| 18 | Kakanilua | Kakanilua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 name | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hills | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hills | det |
| 24 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hills | compound |
| 25 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 name | nmod |
| 26 | below | below | ADP | _ | 27 Wai | case |
| 27 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hills | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 luku | punct |
| 29 | luku | luku | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 Wai | dep |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | this battle | the name | Hawaiian history | the furious destruction at Kakanilua parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | past | Kakanilua | the name | of the sand hills | 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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