Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 52
His uncle, Ka-lani-opuu, who ruled the large island of Hawaii at the time of the death of Captain Cook, had died in 1782.
Who acts: Ka lani opuu, uncle, Captain Cook · What happens: rule, die · To what, where: large island
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 lani opuu, uncle, Captain Cook), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 died | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opuu | punct |
| 4 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 opuu | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ka | punct |
| 6 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opuu | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lani | punct |
| 8 | opuu | opuu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uncle | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruled | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ruled | nsubj |
| 11 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opuu | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 island | amod |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hawaii | case |
| 16 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 island | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 death | det |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Cook | case |
| 24 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Cook | compound |
| 25 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 death | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 uncle | punct |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 died | aux |
| 28 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1782 | case |
| 30 | 1782 | 1782 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 died | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Ka lani opuu | the large island of Hawaii | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | friend's uncle | in 1782 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1782=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | die | Captain Cook | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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