Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 57
Kahahana escaped and for many months wandered over the mountains back of Honolulu, but was at last betrayed and killed.
Who acts: Kahahana · What happens: escape, wander, betray, kill · To what, where: mountains
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 (Kahahana), 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 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wandered | cc |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 months | amod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wandered | obl |
| 7 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 escaped | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountains | det |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wandered | obl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 wandered | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Honolulu | case |
| 13 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 back | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 betrayed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 betrayed | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 betrayed | mark |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 betrayed | amod |
| 19 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 escaped | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 killed | cc |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 betrayed | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | Kahahana | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander | past | Kahahana not said here | the mountains | month | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | betray | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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