Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 2
After the death of Captain Cook in 1779 Ka-meha-meha was slowly gaining dominion over the large island of Hawaii.
Who acts: Ka meha meha, Captain Cook · What happens: gain, die · To what, where: dominion
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka meha meha, Captain Cook), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaining | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Cook | case |
| 5 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cook | compound |
| 6 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1779 | case |
| 8 | 1779 | 1779 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 gaining | obl |
| 9 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 meha | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ka | punct |
| 11 | meha | meha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meha | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 meha | punct |
| 13 | meha | meha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaining | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gaining | aux |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 gaining | advmod |
| 16 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaining | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 island | amod |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gaining | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Hawaii | case |
| 23 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 island | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 gaining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past · progressive | Ka meha meha | dominion | after the death of Captain Cook | over the large island of Hawaii; in 1779; slowly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient dominion=Extent in 1779=Attribute | ||
| 2 | die | Captain Cook | 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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