Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 168
There was no complaint against Kapawa on this score, although he had used his “divine right” in the most burdensome manner.
Who acts: complaint · What happens: be, use · To what, where: score, divine, burdensome manner
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 (complaint), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 complaint | det |
| 4 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 Kapawa | case |
| 6 | Kapawa | Kapawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 complaint | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 score | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 score | det |
| 9 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 11 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 used | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | aux |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 was | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 divine | nmod:poss |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 divine | punct |
| 17 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 24 manner | advmod |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 manner | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 manner | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 burdensome | advmod |
| 23 | burdensome | burdensome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 manner | amod |
| 24 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no complaint against Kapawa | this score; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on score=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | past · perfect | complaint | complaint's divine | the burdensome manner | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent divine=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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