Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 37

The Hawaiian story says that the brothers arrived safely in Tahiti, where Olopana soon became chief of a district known in the legends as “The-open-great-red-Moa.”

Who acts: Hawaiian story, brothers, Olopana · What happens: say, arrive, become, know · To what, where: Tahiti, chief, district, legends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiian story, brothers, Olopana), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	safely	safely	ADV	_	8 arrived	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Tahiti	case
11	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 became	advmod
14	Olopana	Olopana	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 became	nsubj
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 became	advmod
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	conj
17	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 district	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 district	det
20	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chief	nmod
21	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 district	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 legends	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 legends	det
24	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 known	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	35 Moa	case
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Moa	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Moa	det
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 The	punct
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Moa	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 open	punct
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Moa	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 great	punct
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Moa	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 red	punct
35	Moa	Moa	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 known	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Hawaiian story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	arrive	past	the brothers		Tahiti	safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	Olopana	chief of a district		soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	know	participle		a district not said here	the legends	as the open great red Moa	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as moa=Attribute

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, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 37

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 37