Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 59
Kama-hua-lele, standing by the mast which bore the royal colours, sang the chant of Moi-keha.
Who acts: Kama hua lele, mast · What happens: stand, bear, sing · To what, where: royal colours, chant
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 (Kama hua lele, mast), 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 | 17 sang | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 lele | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 mast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mast | det |
| 10 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bore | nsubj |
| 12 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mast | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 colours | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colours | amod |
| 15 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bore | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lele | punct |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chant | det |
| 19 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sang | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Moi | case |
| 21 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 chant | appos |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 keha | punct |
| 23 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 Moi | dep |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | Kama hua lele not said here | by the mast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mast=Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | the mast | the royal colours | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Kama hua lele | the chant | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chant=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/9/59/