Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 55
When Kahekili learned of the death of this great priest he hastened to gather his warriors together and fit out an immense fleet of canoes in order to undertake the conquest of Oahu.
Who acts: Kahekili, great priest · What happens: learn, hasten, gather, fit out, undertake, die · To what, where: warriors, immense fleet, order, conquest
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 (Kahekili, great 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 learned | advmod |
| 2 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hastened | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 death | det |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 priest | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 priest | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 priest | amod |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 death | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hastened | nsubj |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 gather | mark |
| 14 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hastened | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 16 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gather | obj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 gather | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fit | cc |
| 19 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 12 hastened | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 fit | compound:prt |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fleet | det |
| 22 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fleet | amod |
| 23 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fit | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 canoes | case |
| 25 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fleet | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 order | case |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fit | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 undertake | mark |
| 29 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fit | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 conquest | det |
| 31 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 undertake | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Oahu | case |
| 33 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 conquest | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Kahekili | of the death of this great priest | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of death=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | Kahekili | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | Kahekili not said here | Kahekili's warriors | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | |||
| 4 | fit out | present | Kahekili not said here | a immense fleet of canoes | order | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme in order=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | undertake | to-infinitive | Kahekili not said here | the conquest of Oahu | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | die | this great priest | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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