Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 13
When the missionaries of the American Board from Boston arrived, April 4, 1820, at Kailua Bay on the western coast of Hawaii, they landed in territory nominally controlled by Na-ihe and Kapiolani, although at that particular time the young king, Liholiho, and his court were in Kona, and were the real rulers.
Who acts: missionaries, court · What happens: arrive, land, control, be · To what, where: 4, territory, Kona, real rulers
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (missionaries, court), 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 | 10 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 missionaries | det |
| 3 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Board | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Board | det |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Board | amod |
| 7 | Board | Board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 missionaries | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Boston | case |
| 9 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Board | nmod |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 landed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 4 | punct |
| 12 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 4 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 arrived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1820 | punct |
| 15 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 4 | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bay | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Bay | case |
| 18 | Kailua | Kailua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bay | compound |
| 19 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 coast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 coast | det |
| 22 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 coast | amod |
| 23 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bay | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Hawaii | case |
| 25 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 coast | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 landed | nsubj |
| 28 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 territory | case |
| 30 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 landed | obl |
| 31 | nominally | nominally | ADV | _ | 32 controlled | advmod |
| 32 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 landed | advcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 ihe | case |
| 34 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ihe | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Na | punct |
| 36 | ihe | ihe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 controlled | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Kapiolani | cc |
| 38 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ihe | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 time | punct |
| 40 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 44 time | mark |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 time | case |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 time | det |
| 43 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 time | amod |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 landed | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 king | det |
| 46 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 king | amod |
| 47 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 time | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Liholiho | punct |
| 49 | Liholiho | Liholiho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 king | appos |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Kona | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 Kona | cc |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 court | nmod:poss |
| 53 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 Kona | nsubj |
| 54 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 Kona | cop |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 Kona | case |
| 56 | Kona | Kona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 king | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 rulers | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 rulers | cc |
| 59 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 rulers | cop |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 rulers | det |
| 61 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 rulers | amod |
| 62 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 landed | conj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the missionaries of the American Board from Boston | 4 April | Kailua Bay on the western coast of Hawaii conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | land | past | missionaries = missionary | territory | time | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in territory=Destination | |||
| 3 | control | participle | missionaries = missionary not said here | by Na ihe and Kapiolani; nominally property | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Liholiho's court | Kona | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | missionaries = missionary not said here | the real rulers | tree rules |
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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