Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 86
This was later adopted as the national motto and inscribed on all Hawaiian coins: Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono—“Perpetuated is the life of the land by its righteousness,” or “The perpetuation of the life of the land depends upon the righteousness thereof.”
Who acts: i, ka pono · What happens: adopt, inscribe, pono, perpetuate, be, depend · To what, where: This, Hawaiian coins, ka pono, life
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 (i, ka pono), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adopted | aux:pass |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 adopted | advmod |
| 4 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 depends | csubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 motto | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 motto | det |
| 7 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 motto | amod |
| 8 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inscribed | cc |
| 10 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 adopted | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 coins | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 coins | det |
| 13 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coins | amod |
| 14 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inscribed | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ua | punct |
| 16 | Ua | Ua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 coins | appos |
| 17 | mau | mau | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 ea | dep |
| 18 | ke | ke | X | _ | 19 ea | compound |
| 19 | ea | ea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ua | appos |
| 20 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 aina | case |
| 21 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 aina | compound |
| 22 | aina | aina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pono | obl |
| 23 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pono | nsubj |
| 24 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 pono | compound |
| 25 | pono | pono | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 life | nsubj |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Perpetuated | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Perpetuated | punct |
| 28 | Perpetuated | perpetuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 pono | acl:relcl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 life | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 life | det |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ea | acl:relcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 life | nmod |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 righteousness | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 righteousness | nmod:poss |
| 37 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 land | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ua | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ua | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 perpetuation | cc |
| 41 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 perpetuation | punct |
| 42 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 perpetuation | det |
| 43 | perpetuation | perpetuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ua | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 life | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 life | det |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 perpetuation | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 land | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 land | det |
| 49 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 life | nmod |
| 50 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 51 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 53 righteousness | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 righteousness | det |
| 53 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 depends | obl |
| 54 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 50 depends | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 depends | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past · passive | This | as the national motto; late property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as motto=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | inscribe | participle | all Hawaiian coins | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on coin=Destination | |||||
| 3 | pono | i | of ka aina | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | perpetuate in a quote | participle | ka pono not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | ka pono | the life | of the land by pono's righteousness | tree rules | |||
| 6 | depend in a quote | present | upon the righteousness; thereof property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | perpetuate in a quote | the life of the land | nom perpetuation «act transitive»: of=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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