Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 11
It was said that Kahekili followed his advice in creating a division between the king of Oahu and Ka-o-pulu-pulu.
Who acts: Kahekili · What happens: say, follow, create · To what, where: trouble, advice, division · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahekili), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 followed | mark |
| 5 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | nsubj |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 advice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 creating | mark |
| 10 | creating | create | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 followed | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 division | det |
| 12 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 creating | obj |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 division | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Oahu | case |
| 17 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Ka | cc |
| 19 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Oahu | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 pulu | punct |
| 21 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 pulu | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 o | punct |
| 23 | pulu | pulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 Oahu | dep |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 pulu | punct |
| 25 | pulu | pulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 pulu | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | Kahekili | Kahekili's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | create | gerund | Kahekili not said here | a division | between the king | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent division=Result |
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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