Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 69
Ka-meha-meha had been able to secure some small cannon, which he placed on some of his larger canoes.
Who acts: Ka, small cannon · What happens: be, secure, place · To what, where: small cannon, some
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 (Ka, small cannon), 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 | 8 able | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meha | punct |
| 3 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 meha | punct |
| 5 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 secure | mark |
| 10 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 cannon | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cannon | amod |
| 13 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secure | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cannon | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 some | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 placed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 canoes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 canoes | amod |
| 23 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 some | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Ka | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | secure | to-infinitive | Ka not said here | some small cannon | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cannon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | some small cannon | some of Kahekili's larger canoes | Kahekili nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on some=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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