Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 183
Is the priest aware that Kapawa is cruel and evil, that he tramples the life out of the land and that he violates the temples and drags out of the city of refuge the man who has safely entered therein?
Who acts: priest, Kapawa · What happens: be, trample, violate, drag out, enter · To what, where: life, land, temples, city, man
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 (priest, Kapawa), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 cruel | mark |
| 6 | Kapawa | Kapawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cruel | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cruel | cop |
| 8 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 aware | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 evil | cc |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cruel | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tramples | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 tramples | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tramples | nsubj |
| 14 | tramples | trample | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tramples | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tramples | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 violates | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 violates | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 violates | nsubj |
| 24 | violates | violate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tramples | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 temples | det |
| 26 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 violates | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drags | cc |
| 28 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 violates | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 city | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 city | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 city | det |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drags | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 refuge | case |
| 34 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 city | nmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 refuge | appos |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 entered | aux |
| 39 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 40 entered | advmod |
| 40 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 man | acl:relcl |
| 41 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 40 entered | advmod |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the priest | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Kapawa | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Kapawa not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | trample | present | priest | the life | the land | tree rules | |||
| 5 | violate | present | priest | the temples | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drag out | present | priest not said here | the city of refuge | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 7 | enter | present · perfect · passive | the man | safely, therein property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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