Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 147
Paao, aided by the Hawaiians, at once built a temple at Wahaula, which after being twice restored, was destroyed in 1820.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: aid, build, restore, destroy · To what, where: temple, Wahaula, 1820
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aided | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aided | punct |
| 3 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Hawaiians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hawaiians | det |
| 6 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 aided | obl:agent |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 built | mark |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 built | advmod |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 aided | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 temple | det |
| 12 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Wahaula | case |
| 14 | Wahaula | Wahaula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 temple | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 restored | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 restored | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 restored | aux:pass |
| 19 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 restored | advmod |
| 20 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Wahaula | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 destroyed | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 23 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 built | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1820 | case |
| 25 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 destroyed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | participle | Paao | the Hawaiians obl:agent | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | build | past | a temple | Wahaula | once property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset temple=Product | |||
| 3 | restore | gerund · passive | Wahaula | twice property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | destroy | past · passive | 1820 | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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