Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 54
When he knew that his illness was serious he gave the kingdom jointly to Ka-ahu-manu and his son, Liho-liho.
Who acts: meha, illness · What happens: know, be, give · To what, where: kingdom, Ka ahu manu · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (meha, illness), 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 | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 serious | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 illness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 serious | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 serious | cop |
| 8 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 serious | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | jointly | jointly | ADV | _ | 10 gave | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 manu | case |
| 15 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 manu | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ka | punct |
| 17 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 manu | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ahu | punct |
| 19 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 son | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 manu | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 liho | punct |
| 24 | Liho | Liho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 liho | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 liho | punct |
| 26 | liho | liho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 manu | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | meha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | meha's illness | serious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | meha | the kingdom | Ka ahu manu and meha's son and Liho liho | jointly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to manu=Recipient |
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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