Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 46
When Ka-ahu-manu returned to the king’s houses she kept these things in her heart.
Who acts: Ka ahu manu · What happens: return, keep · To what, where: Ka ahu manu, things, heart
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: who acts (Ka ahu manu), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 manu | advmod |
| 2 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 manu | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ka | punct |
| 4 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 manu | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ahu | punct |
| 6 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 manu | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 houses | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 houses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 returned | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kept | nsubj |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kept | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | Ka ahu manu not said here | to the king's houses result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Ka ahu manu | this things | manu's heart | manu nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in heart=Location |
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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