Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 38
“O King! thou art Ka-meha-meha, ‘The Lonely One,’ the one supreme in royal genealogy, but not ‘The Desolate.’
What happens: ' · To what, where: one supreme, royal genealogy
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 King | discourse |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 art | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 art | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lonely | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lonely | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lonely | det |
| 15 | Lonely | Lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Ka | conj |
| 16 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 Lonely | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’ | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 art | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 supreme | det |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 supreme | nummod |
| 21 | supreme | supreme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ’ | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 genealogy | case |
| 23 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 genealogy | amod |
| 24 | genealogy | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 supreme | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Desolate | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 Desolate | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 Desolate | advmod |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Desolate | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Desolate | det |
| 30 | Desolate | Desolate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ’ | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' in a quote | present | the one supreme | royal genealogy | the Desolate obl | tree rules |
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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