Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 58
The oracle of Ka-o-pulu-pulu uttered at the time of the death of his son was kept in the hearts of the natives and its method of fulfilment has been noted.
Who acts: pulu, natives, son · What happens: utter, keep, note, die · To what, where: oracle, hearts, method
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 (pulu, natives, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oracle | det |
| 2 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ka | case |
| 4 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 oracle | nmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 uttered | punct |
| 6 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 uttered | mark |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 o | punct |
| 8 | pulu | pulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 uttered | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pulu | punct |
| 10 | pulu | pulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 pulu | flat:foreign |
| 11 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 oracle | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uttered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 death | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kept | aux:pass |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hearts | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hearts | det |
| 25 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kept | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 natives | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 natives | det |
| 28 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hearts | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 method | cc |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 method | nmod:poss |
| 31 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 fulfilment | case |
| 33 | fulfilment | fulfilment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 method | nmod |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 noted | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 noted | aux:pass |
| 36 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 natives | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | participle | pulu | the oracle of Ka not said here | time | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oracle=Topic | |||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | the oracle of Ka | the hearts of the natives | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in heart=Location | ||||
| 3 | note | present · perfect · passive | the natives not said here | death's method of fulfilment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | die | Ka's son | 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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