Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 47
He took his son, Ka-hulu-pue, with him and went to Wai-anae.
Who acts: plea · What happens: take, go · To what, where: son, Wai
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 (plea), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ka | punct |
| 6 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hulu | punct |
| 8 | hulu | hulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Ka | dep |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pue | punct |
| 10 | pue | pue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hulu | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 him | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Wai | case |
| 17 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 anae | punct |
| 19 | anae | anae | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 Wai | dep |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | plea | plea's son | Ka parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | plea not said here | Wai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wai=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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