Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 49
Laa-mao-mao, who aided Moi-keha as priest of the gods of the winds, later dropped out of the story and moved to the island Molokai, where he was supposed to have made his home near a place known as House of Lono, a well-known hill on that island.
Who acts: mao mao · What happens: aid, drop out, move, suppose, make, know · To what, where: Moi, story, Laa, home, place, mao mao
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 (mao mao), 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 | Laa | laa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mao | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Laa | punct |
| 3 | mao | mao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mao | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 mao | punct |
| 5 | mao | mao | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 aided | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 aided | nsubj |
| 8 | aided | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mao | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 aided | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 keha | punct |
| 11 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Moi | dep |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 priest | case |
| 13 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 aided | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 priest | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 winds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 winds | det |
| 19 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gods | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dropped | punct |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 dropped | advmod |
| 22 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 aided | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 story | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 story | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dropped | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 moved | cc |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dropped | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Molokai | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Molokai | det |
| 31 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Molokai | compound |
| 32 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 moved | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 supposed | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 supposed | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 supposed | aux:pass |
| 37 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Molokai | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 made | mark |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 made | aux |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 supposed | xcomp |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 home | nmod:poss |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obj |
| 43 | near | near | ADP | _ | 45 place | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 place | det |
| 45 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obl |
| 46 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 place | acl |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 House | case |
| 48 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 known | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Lono | case |
| 50 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 House | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 hill | punct |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 hill | det |
| 53 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 55 known | advmod |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 well | punct |
| 55 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 hill | amod |
| 56 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Molokai | appos |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 island | case |
| 58 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 59 island | det |
| 59 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 hill | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mao | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | past | mao mao Laa | Moi | as priest of the gods of the winds | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moi=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | drop out | past | the story | late property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | past | to the island Molokai result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to molokai=Result | |||||
| 4 | suppose | past · passive | Laa | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive · perfect | Laa's home | a place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product | ||||
| 6 | know | participle | a place not said here | as House of Lono | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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