Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 145
Ka-meha-meha realised that he was too weak, both in personal strength and in the number of warriors, to make further effort for the time being.
Who acts: Ka meha meha, meha · What happens: realise, be, make · To what, where: further effort · 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 meha meha, meha), 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 | 5 meha | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | meha | meha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meha | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meha | punct |
| 5 | meha | meha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 realised | nsubj |
| 6 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 weak | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 weak | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 weak | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 weak | advmod |
| 11 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 realised | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strength | punct |
| 13 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 strength | cc:preconj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 strength | case |
| 15 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 strength | amod |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weak | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 number | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 number | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 number | det |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strength | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 warriors | case |
| 22 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 number | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 realised | conj |
| 26 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 effort | amod |
| 27 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obl |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 make | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 realised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | Ka meha meha | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | meha | personal strength and the number of warriors parataxis; weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Ka meha meha not said here | further effort | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset effort=Beneficiary be=Product |
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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