Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 23
Kamehameha was very much ashamed for the evil which had come upon the land and the destruction of his fish-ponds.
Who acts: Kamehameha, evil · What happens: be, come, destroy · To what, where: land, fish ponds
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kamehameha, evil), 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 | 5 ashamed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ashamed | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 ashamed | advmod |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 evil | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 evil | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ashamed | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 evil | acl:relcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 destruction | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 destruction | det |
| 17 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 land | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ponds | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ponds | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ponds | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fish | punct |
| 22 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 destruction | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kamehameha | for the evil; ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the evil | the land and the destruction of Kamehameha's fish ponds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Location | ||||
| 3 | destroy | Kamehameha's fish ponds | nom destruction «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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