Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 44
Kama-hua-lele was known through all the ages by his chant in honour of Moi-Keha.
Who acts: chant, Moi · What happens: know, chant, honour · To what, where: Kama hua lele, ages, honour, Moi
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 (chant, 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 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lele | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kama | punct |
| 3 | hua | hua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lele | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hua | punct |
| 5 | lele | lele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 ages | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ages | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ages | det |
| 11 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 chant | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 chant | nmod:poss |
| 14 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chant | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Moi | case |
| 18 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 honour | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Keha | punct |
| 20 | Keha | Keha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Moi | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Moi's chant in honour of Moi and Keha | Kama hua lele | through all ages | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | chant | Moi | honour of Moi and Keha | nom chant «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 3 | honour | Moi and Keha | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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