Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 59

The people said it was proof that Pele had taken Kamehameha under her especial protection and would always watch over his interests and make him the chief ruler.

Who acts: people, favor, Pele, Kamehameha · What happens: say, be, take, watch, make, protect · To what, where: Pele, especial protection, interests, Kamehameha · 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 (people, favor, Pele, Kamehameha), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proof	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proof	cop
6	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 taken	mark
8	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 proof	advcl
11	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	15 protection	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 protection	nmod:poss
14	especial	especial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 protection	amod
15	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watch	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 watch	aux
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 watch	advmod
19	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 interests	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 interests	nmod:poss
22	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 watch	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 watch	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 make	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ruler	det
27	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ruler	amod
28	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	favor			proof property	tree rules
3	take	past · perfect · passive		Pele	Pele's especial protection	Kamehameha obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme kamehameha=Destination
4	watch	would			Kamehameha's interests	always property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over interest=Location
5	make	infinitive		Kamehameha		the chief ruler xcomp	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
6	protect		Pele				nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	interest		Kamehameha				nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 59