Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 6
The king Tamaah-maah (Ka-meha-meha) ordered Boyd, his carpenter, to make a loom for Campbell to use in weaving cloth for sails.
Who acts: king, Tamaah maah · What happens: maah, order, make, use, weave · To what, where: Boyd, loom, cloth
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Tamaah maah), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maah | nsubj |
| 3 | Tamaah | Tamaah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 maah | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tamaah | punct |
| 5 | maah | maah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ka | punct |
| 7 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 maah | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 meha | punct |
| 9 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Ka | dep |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 meha | punct |
| 11 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Ka | dep |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ka | punct |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Boyd | Boyd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carpenter | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 carpenter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Boyd | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordered | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 loom | det |
| 22 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Campbell | case |
| 24 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 use | mark |
| 26 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 weaving | mark |
| 28 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 use | advcl |
| 29 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 weaving | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 sails | case |
| 31 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 weaving | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maah | the king | Ka appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | order | past | Tamaah maah | Boyd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyd=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Tamaah maah not said here | a loom | for Campbell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent loom=Material for campbell=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | Tamaah maah not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | weave | gerund | Tamaah maah not said here | cloth | for sails | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloth=Product for sail=Beneficiary |
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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