Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 62
Then again when Ka-meha-meha came from Hawaii, conquered Oahu and made Honolulu the centre of his kingdom, the old natives of the island repeated the prophecy and considered it fulfilled.
Who acts: Ka, centre · What happens: come, conquer, make, repeat, consider, fulfil · To what, where: Hawaii, Oahu, Honolulu, prophecy
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 (Ka, centre), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 4 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 meha | punct |
| 6 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Ka | dep |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 meha | punct |
| 8 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Ka | dep |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 conquered | punct |
| 13 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 14 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 conquered | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 conquered | conj |
| 17 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 centre | det |
| 19 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 repeated | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 centre | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 natives | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 natives | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 natives | amod |
| 26 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 repeated | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 island | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 island | det |
| 29 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 natives | nmod |
| 30 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 prophecy | det |
| 32 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 repeated | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 considered | cc |
| 34 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 repeated | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 considered | obj |
| 36 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 considered | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ka | Hawaii | again; then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hawaii=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | conquer | past | Oahu | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oahu=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Honolulu | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honolulu=Product | |||||
| 4 | repeat | past | the centre of centre's kingdom | the prophecy | the old natives of the island nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophecy=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | consider | past | the centre of centre's kingdom not said here | prophecy | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fulfil | participle | the centre of centre's kingdom not said here | tree rules |
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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