Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 37
From Wai-anae the king sent servants with a command to the priest to come to him.
Who acts: Wai · What happens: send, come · To what, where: servants, priest, 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: who acts (Wai), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 Wai | case |
| 2 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 anae | punct |
| 4 | anae | anae | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Wai | dep |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 command | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 command | det |
| 11 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 priest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Wai | servants | the priest | with a command; the king nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to priest=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Wai not said here | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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