Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 68
Kahekili conquered the Oahu army with great slaughter and finally received the body of Kahahana, which was taken to the temple at Waikiki and offered in sacrifice.
Who acts: Kahekili · What happens: conquer, receive, take, offer · To what, where: Oahu army, body, temple, sacrifice
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 (Kahekili), 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 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conquered | nsubj |
| 2 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 army | det |
| 4 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 army | compound |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conquered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 slaughter | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 slaughter | amod |
| 8 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conquered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 received | cc |
| 10 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 11 received | advmod |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 conquered | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kahahana | case |
| 15 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 body | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 temple | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 temple | det |
| 22 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Waikiki | case |
| 24 | Waikiki | Waikiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 temple | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 offered | cc |
| 26 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 taken | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sacrifice | case |
| 28 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 offered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Kahekili | the Oahu army | with great slaughter | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent army=Patient with slaughter=Instrument | |||
| 2 | receive | past | Kahekili not said here | the body of Kahahana | finally property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past · passive | the body of Kahahana | the temple at Waikiki | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to temple=Destination | ||||
| 4 | offer | participle | sacrifice | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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