Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 18
Kahekili, the ruler of Oahu, was also the high chief of Maui, which he had placed under the control of his son, Ka-lani-kupule.
Who acts: Kahekili · What happens: be, place · To what, where: high chief, control
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. 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 | 12 chief | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruler | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ruler | det |
| 4 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kahekili | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Oahu | case |
| 6 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ruler | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kahekili | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chief | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 chief | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chief | amod |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Maui | case |
| 14 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 placed | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 placed | aux |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 chief | acl |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 control | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 control | det |
| 22 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 control | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kupule | punct |
| 27 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 kupule | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Ka | punct |
| 29 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kupule | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 lani | punct |
| 31 | kupule | kupule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kahekili | the high chief and Ka lani kupule | of Maui; Ka lani kupule conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | place | past · perfect · passive | the high chief and Ka lani kupule | the control of Oahu's son | Kahekili nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under control=Destination |
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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