Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 25
The king of Maui sent one of his most trusted servants to Oahu to bring to a climax the enmity of the king toward his priest.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, trust, bring · To what, where: one, Oahu, enmity, climax
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 (king), 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 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Maui | case |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 king | nmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 servants | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 servants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 trusted | advmod |
| 10 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 servants | amod |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Oahu | case |
| 13 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 climax | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 climax | det |
| 18 | climax | climax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 enmity | det |
| 20 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enmity | nmod |
| 24 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 26 priest | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 priest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king of Maui | one of king's trusted servants | Oahu | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to oahu=Destination | |||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the king of Maui not said here | the enmity of the king | a climax | toward king's priest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent enmity=Theme to climax=Destination |
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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