Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 40
Moi-keha appears to have been the priest of the family, for it is said that he built a temple and called it Lanikeha or “the heavenly resting-place.”
Who acts: Moi · What happens: appear, be, say, build, call · To what, where: priest, doubt, temple · 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 (Moi), 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 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 keha | punct |
| 3 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | dep |
| 4 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 priest | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 priest | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 priest | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 priest | det |
| 9 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 family | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 priest | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | aux:pass |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appears | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 built | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 built | nsubj |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 temple | det |
| 22 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 built | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 built | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | obj |
| 26 | Lanikeha | Lanikeha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 place | cc |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 place | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 place | det |
| 30 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 place | amod |
| 31 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 place | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 resting | punct |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Lanikeha | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Moi | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | Moi not said here | the priest | of the family | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · passive | doubt | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | past | Moi | a temple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Product | ||||
| 5 | call | past | Moi not said here | doubt | Lanikeha or the heavenly resting place xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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