Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 55
The very morning of Ka-meha-meha’s death some chiefs came to Ka-ahu-manu with the proposition that she use her authority and declare the tabu at an end.
Who acts: meha death, death · What happens: come, use, declare · To what, where: Ka ahu manu, authority, tabu, end
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 death, death), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 morning | advmod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meha | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ka | case |
| 5 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 meha | punct |
| 7 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Ka | dep |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 meha | punct |
| 9 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 death | amod |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 meha | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 chiefs | det |
| 13 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 manu | case |
| 16 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 manu | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ka | punct |
| 18 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 manu | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ahu | punct |
| 20 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 proposition | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 proposition | det |
| 23 | proposition | proposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 manu | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 use | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 use | nsubj |
| 26 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 authority | nmod:poss |
| 28 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 use | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 declare | cc |
| 30 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 use | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tabu | det |
| 32 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 declare | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 end | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 declare | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | meha death | Ka ahu manu with the proposition | some chiefs nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to manu=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | use | infinitive | death | manu's authority | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | infinitive | death not said here | the tabu | at a end | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabu=Attribute |
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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