Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 41
Ka-o-pulu-pulu was fully aware of the enmity of his king and the danger which attended his yielding obedience.
Who acts: Ka, danger · What happens: be, attend, yield, obey · To what, where: yielding obedience
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 (Ka, danger), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 aware | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulu | punct |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 pulu | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 o | punct |
| 5 | pulu | pulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulu | punct |
| 7 | pulu | pulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 aware | cop |
| 9 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 10 aware | advmod |
| 10 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 enmity | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 enmity | det |
| 13 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 aware | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 king | nmod:poss |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enmity | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 danger | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 danger | det |
| 19 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enmity | conj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 attended | nsubj |
| 21 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 danger | acl:relcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 obedience | nmod:poss |
| 23 | yielding | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 obedience | amod |
| 24 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attended | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ka and pulu and pulu | of the enmity of Ka's king and the danger; aware, fully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attend | past | the danger | Ka's yielding obedience | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme obedience=Goal | ||||
| 3 | yield | gerund | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | obey | Ka | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=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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