Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 13
This statement was drilled into the mind of the Oahu king while visiting on the island of Molokai.
What happens: drill, visit, mind · To what, where: statement, mind, island, Oahu king
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: 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 statement | det |
| 2 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drilled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drilled | aux:pass |
| 4 | drilled | drill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mind | det |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drilled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mind | nmod |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 visiting | mark |
| 13 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 drilled | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visiting | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Molokai | case |
| 18 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 island | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drill | past · passive | this statement | the mind of the Oahu king | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | the island of Molokai | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mind | the Oahu king | nom mind «cognition 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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