Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 13
Kamehameha quickly returned from Maui and made an immediate attack on his enemy, who had taken possession of a fertile highland plain called Waimea.
Who acts: Kamehameha, enemy · What happens: return, make, take, call, possess · To what, where: Maui, immediate attack, enemy, possession, fertile highland plain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kamehameha, enemy), 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 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Maui | case |
| 5 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 attack | det |
| 9 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 attack | amod |
| 10 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 enemy | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 plain | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 plain | det |
| 21 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plain | amod |
| 22 | highland | highland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plain | amod |
| 23 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possession | nmod |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 plain | acl |
| 25 | Waimea | Waimea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Kamehameha | Maui | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from maui=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | Kamehameha not said here | a immediate attack | Kamehameha's enemy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product | |||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | Kamehameha's enemy | possession of a fertile highland plain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a fertile highland plain not said here | Waimea xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | possess | a fertile highland plain | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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