Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 4
“Ka haole nui maka alohilohi (A large foreigner, bright sparkling eyes) A aholehole maka aa (White cheeks, roguish staring eyes) Ka puaa keokeo nui maka ulaula!
What happens: stare · To what, where: Ka haole
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 haole | punct |
| 2 | Ka | Ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 haole | compound |
| 3 | haole | haole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | nui | nui | X | _ | 6 alohilohi | compound |
| 5 | maka | maka | X | _ | 6 alohilohi | compound |
| 6 | alohilohi | alohilohi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 haole | conj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 foreigner | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 foreigner | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foreigner | amod |
| 10 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alohilohi | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 13 | sparkling | sparkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | compound |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 foreigner | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 foreigner | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 aholehole | det |
| 17 | aholehole | aholehole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 puaa | nsubj |
| 18 | maka | maka | X | _ | 19 aa | compound |
| 19 | aa | AA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 aholehole | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 cheeks | punct |
| 21 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cheeks | amod |
| 22 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 aholehole | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eyes | punct |
| 24 | roguish | roguish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 25 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 eyes | amod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cheeks | conj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 cheeks | punct |
| 28 | Ka | Ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 puaa | flat:foreign |
| 29 | puaa | puaa | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 ulaula | amod |
| 30 | keokeo | keokeo | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 puaa | flat |
| 31 | nui | nui | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 puaa | flat:foreign |
| 32 | maka | maka | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 puaa | flat:foreign |
| 33 | ulaula | ulaula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 haole | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 haole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare in a quote | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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