Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 74
When Moi-keha saw Hooipo, the daughter of the king, he determined to have her for his wife and planned to enter into the contest.
Who acts: Moi · What happens: see, determine, have, plan, enter · To what, where: Hooipo, contest
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 keha | punct |
| 4 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Moi | dep |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 determined | advcl |
| 6 | Hooipo | Hooipo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Hooipo | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 determined | nsubj |
| 15 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 planned | cc |
| 23 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wife | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 enter | mark |
| 25 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 planned | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 contest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 contest | det |
| 28 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 enter | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Moi | Hooipo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hooipo=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | Moi | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | Moi not said here | Hooipo | for Moi's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 4 | plan | participle | Moi not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | Moi not said here | the contest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into contest=Initial_Location |
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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