Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 7
Ka-leo-puu-puu had been high priest of Oahu, but on the death of his king he was superseded by his elder brother, Ka-o-pulu-pulu.
Who acts: Ka, elder brother, king · What happens: be, supersede, die · To what, where: high priest, Ka, death
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, elder brother, king), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 priest | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | leo | leo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ka | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 leo | punct |
| 5 | puu | puu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puu | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 puu | punct |
| 7 | puu | puu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 priest | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 priest | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 priest | cop |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 priest | amod |
| 11 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Oahu | case |
| 13 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 priest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 superseded | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 superseded | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 death | det |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 superseded | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 king | nmod:poss |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 death | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 superseded | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 superseded | aux:pass |
| 24 | superseded | supersede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 priest | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 brother | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brother | amod |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 superseded | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ka | punct |
| 30 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 brother | appos |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 pulu | punct |
| 32 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 36 pulu | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 o | punct |
| 34 | pulu | pulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 pulu | flat:foreign |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 pulu | punct |
| 36 | pulu | pulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 Ka | dep |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 priest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | Ka | high priest | of Oahu; puu puu nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | supersede | past · passive | Ka's elder brother | Ka | the death of Ka's king | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | Ka's king | 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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