Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 67
Keopuolani, one of the queens, asked the king to eat with her.
Who acts: Keopuolani · What happens: ask, eat · To what, where: king
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 (Keopuolani), 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 | Keopuolani | Keopuolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Keopuolani | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 queens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queens | det |
| 6 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keopuolani | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Keopuolani | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | Keopuolani not said here | with Keopuolani | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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