Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 69
Then she took his little brother (afterward Ka-meha-meha III) and induced him to eat with her.
Who acts: liho · What happens: take, induce, eat · To what, where: little brother, 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 (liho), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ka | punct |
| 8 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 9 Ka | case |
| 9 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 meha | punct |
| 11 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Ka | dep |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 meha | punct |
| 13 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 meha | flat:foreign |
| 14 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 meha | flat |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ka | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 induced | cc |
| 17 | induced | induce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 induced | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 induced | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 eat | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | liho | king's little brother | then | Ka obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Theme ka=Destination | ||
| 2 | induce | past | liho not said here | king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | liho not said here | with liho | 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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