Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 38

Throughout all the Hawaiian Islands no priest had a reputation for ability to read the signs of the sacrifices, utter oracles and prepare incantations against enemies greater than that of Ka-o-pulu-pulu.

Who acts: priest · What happens: have, read, prepare, sign · To what, where: reputation, signs, incantations, sacrifices

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 (priest), 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	Throughout	throughout	ADP	_	5 Islands	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Islands	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Islands	det
4	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Islands	compound
5	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 had	obl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 reputation	det
10	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 ability	case
12	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reputation	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 read	mark
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ability	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 signs	det
16	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 read	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sacrifices	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sacrifices	det
19	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 signs	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 oracles	punct
21	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 oracles	amod
22	oracles	oracle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 signs	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 prepare	cc
24	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 read	conj
25	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 prepare	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 greater	case
27	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 greater	nsubj
28	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 prepare	xcomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 greater	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Ka	case
32	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 that	nmod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 pulu	punct
34	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	36 pulu	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 o	punct
36	pulu	pulu	X	Foreign=Yes	32 Ka	dep
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 pulu	punct
38	pulu	pulu	X	Foreign=Yes	36 pulu	flat:foreign
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	no priest	a reputation	throughout all Hawaiian Islands	for ability	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient
2	read	to-infinitive	no priest not said here	the signs of the sacrifices and utter oracles			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic
3	prepare	infinitive	no priest not said here	incantations		great property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incantation=Patient
4	sign			the sacrifices			nom sign «communication 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 38

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 38