Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 66
Ka-meha-meha III made a short speech of protest, closing with the words: “I have hope that the life of the land will be restored when my conduct shall be justified.”
Who acts: Ka, chiefs, conduct, my · What happens: make, close, have, restore, be, speak · To what, where: short speech, hope, life, protest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ka, chiefs, conduct, my), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meha | punct |
| 3 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 meha | punct |
| 5 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Ka | dep |
| 6 | III | iii | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 speech | det |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speech | amod |
| 10 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 protest | case |
| 12 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speech | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 closing | punct |
| 14 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 closing | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 22 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 restored | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 life | det |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 life | nmod |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 restored | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 restored | aux:pass |
| 31 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hope | acl:relcl |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 37 justified | mark |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 34 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 justified | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 justified | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 justified | cop |
| 37 | justified | justified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 restored | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Ka | a short speech of protest | III nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Product | |||
| 2 | close | gerund | Ka not said here | with the words | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the chiefs = chief | hope | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 4 | restore in a quote | future · passive | the life of the land | hope obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | my conduct | justified property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | speak | protest | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | conduct in a quote | my | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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