Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 27
Here Ka-eo-ku-lani, the chief of Kauai, took the leadership of the expedition and, looking upon Maui as redeemed from the victorious inroad of Ka-meha-meha, assumed the island as one of his perquisites of the campaign.
Who acts: chief · What happens: take, look, redeem, assume · To what, where: leadership, victorious inroad, island
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 (chief), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 took | advmod |
| 2 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ka | punct |
| 4 | eo | eo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 eo | punct |
| 6 | ku | ku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lani | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ku | punct |
| 8 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kauai | case |
| 13 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chief | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leadership | det |
| 17 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 expedition | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 expedition | det |
| 20 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leadership | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looking | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looking | punct |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 took | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 Maui | case |
| 25 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | obl |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 redeemed | mark |
| 27 | redeemed | redeem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 looking | advcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 inroad | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 inroad | det |
| 30 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 inroad | amod |
| 31 | inroad | inroad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 redeemed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Ka | case |
| 33 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 inroad | appos |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 meha | punct |
| 35 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 Ka | dep |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 meha | punct |
| 37 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 meha | flat:foreign |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 assumed | punct |
| 39 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 island | det |
| 41 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 assumed | obj |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 one | case |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 assumed | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 perquisites | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 perquisites | nmod:poss |
| 46 | perquisites | perquisite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 one | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 campaign | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 campaign | det |
| 49 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 perquisites | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the chief of Kauai | the leadership of the expedition | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leadership=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | the chief of Kauai not said here | upon Maui | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon maui=Theme | ||||
| 3 | redeem | participle | the chief of Kauai not said here | the victorious inroad | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from inroad=Source | ||||
| 4 | assume | past | the chief of Kauai not said here | the island | as one of lani's perquisites of the campaign | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
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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