Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 17
The king not only drove away his high priest, but also estranged his chiefs.
What happens: not drive away, estrange · To what, where: king, chiefs
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 drove | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 drove | advmod |
| 5 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 drove | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 priest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 priest | amod |
| 9 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 estranged | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 estranged | cc |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 estranged | advmod |
| 13 | estranged | estrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drove | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 estranged | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drive away | past | the king | Kahahana's high priest obj; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme priest=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | estrange | past | Kahahana's chiefs | 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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