Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 4
When he died in 1782, he left the kingdom to his son Kiwalao, giving the second place to his nephew Kamehameha.
Who acts: king · What happens: die, leave, give · To what, where: kingdom, son, second place, nephew
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 died | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1782 | case |
| 5 | 1782 | 1782 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 died | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 14 | Kiwalao | Kiwalao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 nephew | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | nmod |
| 23 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 nephew | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | king | in 1782 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1782=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | king | the kingdom | king's son | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | king not said here | the second place | king's nephew | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Theme to nephew=Recipient |
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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