Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 151
Ka-meha-meha owned the best harbours and offered the best inducements for trade with the foreigners.
Who acts: Ka · What happens: own, offer · To what, where: best harbours, best inducements
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), 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 owned | 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 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 harbours | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 harbours | amod |
| 9 | harbours | harbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 owned | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 offered | cc |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 owned | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inducements | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 inducements | amod |
| 14 | inducements | inducement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 offered | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 trade | case |
| 16 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 foreigners | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foreigners | det |
| 19 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 offered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | Ka | the best harbours | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot harbour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Ka not said here | the best inducements | for trade goal; with the foreigners | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent inducement=Theme for trade=Goal |
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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