Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 98

The story, related by Kukahi, is that Ka-meha-meha did not succeed in overtaking any of the Puna people before they gained the shore and fled inland.

Who acts: story, people · What happens: relate, not be, overtake, gain, flee · To what, where: story, any, shore

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 (story, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 succeed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 related	punct
4	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 story	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Kukahi	case
6	Kukahi	Kukahi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 related	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 story	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 succeed	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 succeed	mark
10	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 succeed	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Ka	punct
12	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	10 Ka	dep
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 meha	punct
14	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	10 Ka	dep
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 succeed	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 succeed	advmod
17	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 overtaking	mark
19	overtaking	overtake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 succeed	advcl
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 overtaking	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 people	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
23	Puna	Puna	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 people	compound
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 any	nmod
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 gained	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gained	nsubj
27	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 succeed	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shore	det
29	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gained	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fled	cc
31	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gained	conj
32	inland	inland	ADV	_	31 fled	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 succeed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	relate	participle		the story not said here	by Kukahi	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present · do-support	the story		Ka nsubj; succeed property	tree rules
3	overtake	gerund	the story not said here	any of the Puna people		tree rules
4	gain	past	people	the shore		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
5	flee	past	people not said here		inland property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 98

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 98