Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 222
From Hilo, the eleventh century king went to the beautiful Waipio Valley, taking Paao with him.
Who acts: eleventh century king · What happens: go, take · To what, where: beautiful Waipio Valley, Hilo, Paao
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 (eleventh century king), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 Hilo | case |
| 2 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hilo | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 5 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 king | amod |
| 6 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Valley | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Valley | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Valley | amod |
| 12 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Valley | compound |
| 13 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 16 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the eleventh century king | the beautiful Waipio Valley | Hilo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hilo=Initial_Location to valley=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | the eleventh century king not said here | Paao | with king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument paao=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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