Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 157
The Nanaulu line maintained its independence through all the centuries, until it was finally absorbed by the Ka-meha-meha family.
Who acts: Nanaulu line, Ka · What happens: maintain, absorb · To what, where: independence, line
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 (Nanaulu line, Ka), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 line | det |
| 2 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 line | compound |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maintained | nsubj |
| 4 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 independence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maintained | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 centuries | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 centuries | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 centuries | det |
| 10 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 maintained | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 absorbed | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 absorbed | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 15 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 16 absorbed | advmod |
| 16 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 maintained | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Ka | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ka | det |
| 19 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 absorbed | obl |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 meha | punct |
| 21 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 Ka | dep |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 family | punct |
| 23 | meha | meha | X | _ | 24 family | compound |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ka | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | the Nanaulu line | line's independence | century | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=Theme | |||
| 2 | absorb | past · passive | the Ka and meha family | line | finally property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal subject=Theme |
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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