Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 4
He was the uncle of Kiwalao, the young king of the island Hawaii, who was killed by Kamehameha’s warriors when Kamehameha became king of that island.
Who acts: Hilo, warriors, Kamehameha · What happens: be, kill, become · To what, where: uncle, young king, king
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 (Hilo, warriors, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 uncle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 uncle | det |
| 4 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kiwalao | case |
| 6 | Kiwalao | Kiwalao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 uncle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncle | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Hawaii | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hawaii | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hawaii | compound |
| 14 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 killed | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 king | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 warriors | case |
| 20 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Kamehameha | case |
| 22 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 killed | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 became | advmod |
| 24 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 island | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 island | det |
| 29 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hilo | the uncle | of Kiwalao; the young king of the island Hawaii appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | Kamehameha's warriors | the young king of the island Hawaii | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Kamehameha | king of that island | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/23/4/