Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 52

Ka-ahu-manu talked these and many other similar experiences over when she visited the old grass house, gaining new ideas and new confidence from her loyal retainers; but the old woman, with aching heart, sat in the door, muttering incantations to keep her queen and her children from the danger which their words seemed to invite.

Who acts: Ka ahu manu, many other similar experiences, old woman, words, women · What happens: talk, visit, gain, ache, sit, mutter · To what, where: these, old grass house, new ideas, door, incantations, queen

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, many other similar experiences, old woman, words), 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	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ka	punct
3	ahu	ahu	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 manu	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ahu	punct
5	manu	manu	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	nsubj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 talked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 visited	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 experiences	amod
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 experiences	amod
11	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 experiences	amod
12	experiences	experience	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 visited	nsubj
13	over	over	ADV	_	16 visited	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 visited	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 visited	nsubj
16	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 house	amod
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	compound
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 visited	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gaining	punct
22	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 visited	advcl
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ideas	amod
24	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gaining	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 confidence	cc
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 confidence	amod
27	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ideas	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 retainers	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 retainers	nmod:poss
30	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 retainers	amod
31	retainers	retainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 confidence	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 woman	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 woman	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 woman	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 woman	amod
36	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 heart	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 heart	case
39	aching	ache	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 heart	amod
40	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 woman	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sat	punct
42	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	parataxis
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 door	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 door	det
45	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 muttering	punct
47	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 sat	advcl
48	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 muttering	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 keep	mark
50	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 muttering	advcl
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 queen	nmod:poss
52	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 keep	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 children	cc
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 children	nmod:poss
55	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 sat	conj
56	from	from	ADP	_	58 danger	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 danger	det
58	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sat	obl
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 seemed	obj
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 words	nmod:poss
61	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 seemed	nsubj
62	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 danger	acl:relcl
63	to	to	PART	_	64 invite	mark
64	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 seemed	xcomp
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Ka ahu manu	these			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent this=Patient
2	visit	past	many other similar experiences	the old grass house		manu nsubj; over property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent
3	gain	gerund	many other similar experiences not said here	new ideas and new confidence from manu's loyal retainers			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
4	ache	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	sit	past	the old woman and aching heart		the door	from the danger; manu's children conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location
6	mutter speech: assert	gerund	the old woman and aching heart not said here	incantations			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incantation=Topic
7	keep	to-infinitive	the old woman and aching heart not said here	manu's queen			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
8	seem	past	women's words	the danger			tree rules
9	invite	to-infinitive	women's words not said here				vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
10	word		women = woman				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 52

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 52