Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 75
The king had sent a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament to be placed on one of the small islands some distance from Kauai.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, place · To what, where: human hair necklace
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 necklace | det |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 necklace | amod |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 necklace | compound |
| 8 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ornament | cc |
| 10 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ornament | compound |
| 11 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ornament | compound |
| 12 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 necklace | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 placed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ornament | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 placed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 islands | amod |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 distance | det |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 islands | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Kauai | case |
| 25 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 distance | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect | the king | a human hair necklace and whale tooth ornament | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | on one of the small islands and some distance from Kauai | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on one=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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