Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 9
He traced his royal blood to Pili, “from a foreign land,” and through Pili back to Wa-kea, a Polynesian chief of perhaps the second century; and thence back through a series of hero-gods to Kumu-Honua, “the first created.”
Who acts: king, first · What happens: trace, create · To what, where: royal blood, Pili, foreign land
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 (king, first), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 traced | nsubj |
| 2 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blood | nmod:poss |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traced | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Pili | case |
| 7 | Pili | Pili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 traced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 12 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 land | amod |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 traced | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 created | cc |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 Pili | case |
| 18 | Pili | pili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 created | obl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 kea | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 kea | case |
| 21 | Wa | Wa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 kea | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wa | punct |
| 23 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Pili | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chief | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chief | det |
| 26 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 chief | amod |
| 27 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kea | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 century | case |
| 29 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 32 century | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 century | det |
| 31 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 century | amod |
| 32 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chief | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 series | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 series | cc |
| 35 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 36 back | advmod |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 series | advmod |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 series | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 series | det |
| 39 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Pili | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 gods | case |
| 41 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gods | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 hero | punct |
| 43 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 series | nmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Kumu | case |
| 45 | Kumu | Kumu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 gods | nmod |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 Honua | punct |
| 47 | Honua | Honua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Kumu | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 created | punct |
| 49 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 created | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 first | det |
| 51 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 52 created | nsubj |
| 52 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 traced | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traced | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | past | king | king's royal blood | Pili | a foreign land | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | ||
| 2 | create in a quote | past | the first | Pili and a series of hero gods to Kumu and Honua | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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