Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 9
The possession of this armament led Ka-meha-meha to seize the two white men, Isaac Davis and John Young in the year 1790.
Who acts: possession · What happens: lead, seize, possess · To what, where: Ka, two white men, armament
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 (possession), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 possession | det |
| 2 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 armament | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 armament | det |
| 5 | armament | armament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 possession | nmod |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 meha | punct |
| 9 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Ka | dep |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 meha | punct |
| 11 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Ka | dep |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seize | mark |
| 13 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 led | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 men | nummod |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seize | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Isaac | punct |
| 19 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Young | nsubj |
| 20 | Davis | Davis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Isaac | flat |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 John | cc |
| 22 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Isaac | conj |
| 23 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 led | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Young | obl |
| 27 | 1790 | 1790 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 year | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the possession of this armament | Ka | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ka=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive | the possession of this armament not said here | the two white men | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | possess | this armament | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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