Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 172

When the Hawaiian legends say “The Ulu line of high chiefs became extinct on account of the crimes of Kapawa,” something must be considered besides property, morality or human life.

Who acts: Hawaiian legends, Ulu line · What happens: say, become, consider, account, incriminate · To what, where: account, something, crimes, Kapawa · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hawaiian legends, Ulu line), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 legends	det
3	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legends	amod
4	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 considered	advcl
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 line	compound
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 chiefs	case
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chiefs	amod
12	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 line	nmod
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
14	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 account	case
16	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 crimes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crimes	det
19	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 account	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Kapawa	case
21	Kapawa	Kapawa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 crimes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 considered	nsubj:pass
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 considered	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 considered	aux:pass
27	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
28	besides	besides	ADP	_	29 property	case
29	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 considered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 morality	punct
31	morality	morality	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 property	appos
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 life	cc
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 life	amod
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 morality	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Hawaiian legends				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	become in a quote	past	the Ulu line of high chiefs		account of the crimes of Kapawa	extinct property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	consider	must · passive		something		besides property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	account in a quote			the crimes of Kapawa			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	incriminate in a quote			Kapawa			nom crime «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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 172

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 172