Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 61
When Kahekili landed from his fleet of canoes, and conquered Kahahana, the people said, “The life of the land has come from the sea.”
Who acts: Kahekili, people, life · What happens: land, conquer, say, come · To what, where: fleet, Kahahana, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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, people, life), 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 landed | advmod |
| 2 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 fleet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fleet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 canoes | case |
| 8 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fleet | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conquered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 conquered | cc |
| 11 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | conj |
| 12 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 conquered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 life | nmod |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Kahekili | Kahekili's fleet of canoes | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | conquer | past | Kahekili not said here | Kahahana | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kahahana=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the life of the land | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=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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