Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 83
Ka-meha-meha soon followed them, and during the next three years, step by step, passed over the islands until the kingdom was his.
Who acts: Ka, step · What happens: follow, pass, be, step · To what, where: gunners, islands, fleet
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, step), 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 | 7 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meha | punct |
| 3 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meha | punct |
| 5 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 followed | advmod |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 followed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 step | punct |
| 17 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 years | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 step | case |
| 19 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 step | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 years | punct |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 followed | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 islands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 islands | det |
| 24 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passed | obl |
| 25 | until | until | ADP | _ | 27 kingdom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kingdom | det |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 his | cop |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 passed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Ka | gunners = gunner | soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | participle | Ka not said here | the islands | until the kingdom; year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over island=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | fleet | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | step | step | nom step «act transitive»: by=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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