Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 63
After a few days Liho-liho, the young king, and Ka-ahu-manu, in their most regal apparel, met and together assumed the government of the Hawaiian Islands.
What happens: meet, assume · To what, where: government
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 met | obl |
| 5 | Liho | Liho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Liho | punct |
| 7 | liho | liho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Liho | list |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 king | amod |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Liho | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 manu | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 manu | cc |
| 14 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ahu | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ka | punct |
| 16 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manu | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ahu | punct |
| 18 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Liho | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 apparel | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 apparel | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 apparel | nmod:poss |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 apparel | amod |
| 23 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 apparel | amod |
| 24 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Liho | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 assumed | cc |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 29 assumed | advmod |
| 29 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 met | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 government | det |
| 31 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 assumed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Islands | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Islands | det |
| 34 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Islands | compound |
| 35 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 government | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | assume | past | the government of the Hawaiian Islands | together property | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=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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