Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 69
King Kalakaua adds a romantic incident to the coming of Moi-keha to Kauai.
Who acts: King · What happens: add, come · To what, where: romantic incident, Kauai
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 (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 adds | nsubj |
| 2 | Kalakaua | Kalakaua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 incident | det |
| 5 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 incident | amod |
| 6 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adds | obj |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coming | det |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 adds | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Moi | case |
| 11 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 keha | punct |
| 13 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 Moi | dep |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Kauai | case |
| 15 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | King | a romantic incident | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | King not said here | Kauai | of Moi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of moi=Initial_Location to kauai=Destination |
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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