Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 148
From Paao, the high priest’s family, highest in priestly rank of all dwelling in the islands, was perpetuated, until Ka-meha-meha’s high priest, Hewa-hewa, a lineal descendant of Paao, in 1819, aided in destroying the temples of the gods.
What happens: dwell, perpetuate, aid, destroy · To what, where: islands, priestly rank, temples
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 Paao | case |
| 2 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 highest | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Paao | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priest | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 priest | amod |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 priest | case |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 highest | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 highest | punct |
| 10 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rank | case |
| 12 | priestly | priestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rank | amod |
| 13 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perpetuated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rank | nmod |
| 16 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 all | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 islands | det |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dwelling | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rank | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 perpetuated | aux:pass |
| 22 | perpetuated | perpetuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 highest | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 priest | punct |
| 24 | until | until | ADP | _ | 32 priest | case |
| 25 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 priest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ka | punct |
| 27 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 Ka | dep |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 meha | punct |
| 29 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 Ka | dep |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Ka | case |
| 31 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 priest | amod |
| 32 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perpetuated | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hewa | punct |
| 34 | Hewa | Hewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hewa | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Hewa | punct |
| 36 | hewa | hewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 priest | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 descendant | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 descendant | det |
| 39 | lineal | lineal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 descendant | amod |
| 40 | descendant | descendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hewa | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Paao | case |
| 42 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 descendant | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 1819 | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 1819 | case |
| 45 | 1819 | 1819 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 perpetuated | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 aided | punct |
| 47 | aided | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 perpetuated | conj |
| 48 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 49 destroying | mark |
| 49 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 47 aided | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 temples | det |
| 51 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 destroying | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 gods | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 gods | det |
| 54 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 temples | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 highest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | the islands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location | |||||
| 2 | perpetuate | past · passive | priestly rank of all | until Ka's high priest | in 1819 | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» | |||
| 3 | aid | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | destroy | gerund | the temples of the gods | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=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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