Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 20
Then it passed with Ka-meha-meha from island to island as he conquered the high chiefs and became the sole ruler of the group.
Who acts: flag, Ka · What happens: pass, conquer, become · To what, where: Ka, island, high chiefs, sole ruler
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flag, Ka), 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 passed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Ka | case |
| 5 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 meha | punct |
| 7 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Ka | dep |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 meha | punct |
| 9 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 meha | flat:foreign |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 island | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 conquered | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 conquered | nsubj |
| 16 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chiefs | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chiefs | amod |
| 19 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 conquered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 conquered | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ruler | det |
| 23 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ruler | amod |
| 24 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 group | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 group | det |
| 27 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ruler | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | flag | Ka | island to island | then | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ka=Theme from island=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | conquer | past | Ka | the high chiefs | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Ka not said here | the sole ruler of the group | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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