Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 7
When Ka-meha-meha became king of “The Rainbow Islands,” his royal chant took the supreme place.
Who acts: Ka, royal chant · What happens: become, take, chant · To what, where: king, supreme place
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, royal chant), 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 | 7 became | advmod |
| 2 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 meha | punct |
| 4 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Ka | dep |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 meha | punct |
| 6 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Ka | dep |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | advcl |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Islands | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Islands | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Islands | det |
| 12 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | compound |
| 13 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 king | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chant | nmod:poss |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chant | amod |
| 18 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 21 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Ka | king of the Rainbow Islands | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Ka's royal chant | the supreme place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chant | Ka | nom chant «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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