Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 45
Ka-meha-meha (The Only-Only) was an ideal chief.
What happens: be · To what, where: ideal chief, Ka
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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 chief | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 8 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 15 chief | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Only | punct |
| 10 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 15 chief | advmod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Only | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 chief | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 14 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chief | amod |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meha | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ideal chief | 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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