Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 39
Ka-ahu-manu listened in astonishment.
What happens: listen · To what, where: ahu manu
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. 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 | 5 manu | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manu | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 manu | punct |
| 5 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 manu | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 astonishment | case |
| 8 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 listened | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 manu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | participle | ahu manu Ka not said here | in astonishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in astonishment=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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