Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 43

He fulfilled Carlyle’s definition of “King”—“König,” “the man who can”—the man who, after the battle, would be “lifted upon his comrades’ shields and hailed as hero.”

Who acts: Ka, Carlyle · What happens: fulfil, lift, hail, define · To what, where: definition, man, shields, King

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 (Ka, Carlyle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

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The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fulfilled	nsubj
2	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Carlyle	Carlyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 definition	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Carlyle	case
5	definition	definition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fulfilled	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 King	punct
8	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 definition	nmod
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 fulfilled	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 König	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 König	punct
12	König	König	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fulfilled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 König	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 König	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 can	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 can	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 man	aux
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 can	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 König	appos
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lifted	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 battle	punct
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 battle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 battle	det
28	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lifted	nsubj:pass
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 battle	punct
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 lifted	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 lifted	aux:pass
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 lifted	punct
33	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 man	acl:relcl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 shields	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 comrades	nmod:poss
36	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 shields	nmod:poss
37	’	's	PART	_	36 comrades	case
38	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lifted	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hailed	cc
40	hailed	hail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 lifted	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 hero	case
42	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hailed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fulfil	past	Ka	Carlyle's definition of King		König obl	tree rules
2	lift in a quote	would · passive		the man	Ka's comrades's shields	the battle nsubj:pass	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon shield=Destination
3	hail in a quote	participle				as hero	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hero=Attribute
4	define		Carlyle	King			nom definition «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 43

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 43