Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 7
In transferring Kaiana’s arsenal from Kauai to Hawaii Ka-meha-meha secured an advantage over all the other chiefs of the islands.
What happens: transfer, secure · To what, where: arsenal, Hawaii Ka, Kauai
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: 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 transferring | mark |
| 2 | transferring | transfer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | Kaiana | Kaiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arsenal | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Kaiana | case |
| 5 | arsenal | arsenal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transferring | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Kauai | case |
| 7 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 transferring | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Ka | case |
| 9 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ka | compound |
| 10 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 transferring | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 meha | punct |
| 12 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Ka | dep |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meha | punct |
| 14 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Ka | dep |
| 15 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 advantage | amod |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 advantage | det |
| 17 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meha | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 chiefs | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 chiefs | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chiefs | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chiefs | amod |
| 22 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 transferring | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 islands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 islands | det |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chiefs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 transferring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transfer | gerund | Kaiana's arsenal | Hawaii Ka | Kauai | over all other chiefs of the islands | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent arsenal=Theme from kauai=Initial_Location to ka=Destination | ||
| 2 | secure | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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