Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 253
Ka-lani-hale—“the heaven house”—was the name of this home of the king.
What happens: be · To what, where: name
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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hale | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hale | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hale | punct |
| 5 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | compound |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hale | appos |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hale | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 home | det |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 home | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the name | of this home of the king | 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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