Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 123

Ka-meha-meha knew how unreasonably wilful he had been in forbidding his steersman to join in the pursuit, and therefore felt the injustice of permitting him to be punished.

Who acts: Ka, injustice · What happens: know, forbid, join, feel, permit, punish · To what, where: steersman, injustice, Ka · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, injustice), 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	6 knew	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	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wilful	advmod
8	unreasonably	unreasonably	ADV	_	9 wilful	advmod
9	wilful	wilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knew	xcomp
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forbidding	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 forbidding	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 forbidding	aux
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 forbidding	mark
14	forbidding	forbid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 knew	ccomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 steersman	nmod:poss
16	steersman	steersman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forbidding	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 join	mark
18	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forbidding	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 pursuit	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pursuit	det
21	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 join	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 felt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 felt	cc
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	25 felt	advmod
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 injustice	det
27	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 felt	obj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 permitting	mark
29	permitting	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 injustice	acl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 permitting	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 punished	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 punished	aux:pass
33	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 permitting	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Ka		wilful property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	forbid	past · perfect · progressive	Ka	Ka's steersman		tree rules
3	join	to-infinitive	Ka not said here		in the pursuit	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pursuit=Theme
4	feel	past		the injustice	therefore property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme
5	permit	gerund	the injustice not said here	Ka		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	punish	to-infinitive · passive	the injustice not said here			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 123

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 123