Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 158
The Ulu line in Hawaii was replaced by a Samoan family of high chiefs brought into Hawaii by Paao, in connection with the overthrow of Kapawa.
Who acts: Samoan family · What happens: replace, bring, overthrow · To what, where: Ulu line, connection, high chiefs, Hawaii, Kapawa
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 (Samoan family), 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 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 line | compound |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Hawaii | case |
| 5 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 line | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replaced | aux:pass |
| 7 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 10 | Samoan | samoan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 family | amod |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replaced | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chiefs | case |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chiefs | amod |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 family | nmod |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chiefs | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 Hawaii | case |
| 17 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Paao | case |
| 19 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 connection | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 connection | case |
| 22 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replaced | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 overthrow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 overthrow | det |
| 25 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 connection | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Kapawa | case |
| 27 | Kapawa | Kapawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 overthrow | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | past · passive | a Samoan family of high chiefs | the Ulu line in Hawaii | connection with the overthrow of Kapawa | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | high chiefs not said here | Hawaii | by Paao | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into hawaii=Destination | |||
| 3 | overthrow | Kapawa | nom overthrow «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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