Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 230

Ka-meha-meha, the most noted person of all Hawaiian history, was a descendant in a straight genealogical line from Pili, and Hewa-hewa, the Christian, was the last high priest of the Paao line.

Who acts: Ka, descendant · What happens: note, be · To what, where: descendant, straight genealogical line, last high priest

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 (Ka, descendant), 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	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 descendant	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 meha	punct
3	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Ka	dep
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 meha	punct
5	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Ka	dep
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 person	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 noted	advmod
9	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ka	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 history	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 history	det
13	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 history	amod
14	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 person	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ka	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 descendant	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 descendant	det
18	descendant	descendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 priest	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 line	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 line	det
21	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 line	amod
22	genealogical	genealogical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 line	amod
23	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 descendant	nmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 Pili	case
25	Pili	Pili	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 line	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hewa	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hewa	cc
28	Hewa	Hewa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hewa	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Hewa	punct
30	hewa	hewa	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 descendant	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Christian	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Christian	det
33	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hewa	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 descendant	punct
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 priest	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 priest	det
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 priest	amod
38	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 priest	amod
39	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 line	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 line	det
42	Paao	Paao	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 line	compound
43	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 priest	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 priest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	note	participle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Ka	a descendant and Hewa hewa	a straight genealogical line from Pili	Hewa hewa conj	tree rules
3	is a	past	a descendant and Hewa hewa	the last high priest		of the Paao line	tree rules

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 230

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 230