Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 34
He then settled in Honolulu and became a friend of the king, who made him a “tabu-chief.”
Who acts: Captain, friend · What happens: settle, become, make · To what, where: Honolulu, friend, tabu chief, Captain
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 (Captain, friend), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 settled | advmod |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Honolulu | case |
| 5 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 friend | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chief | det |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 chief | punct |
| 19 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chief | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tabu | punct |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Captain | Honolulu | then | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honolulu=Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | Captain not said here | a friend of the king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a friend of the king | a tabu chief | Captain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary chief=Product |
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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