Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 12
Here he proved his superiority over the Tahitian chiefs among whom he had found his permanent home.
Who acts: manhood · What happens: prove, find · To what, where: superiority, Tahitian chiefs, permanent home
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manhood), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 proved | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 proved | nsubj |
| 3 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 superiority | nmod:poss |
| 5 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 chiefs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 8 | Tahitian | tahitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chiefs | amod |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 proved | obl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 chiefs | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 home | amod |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | manhood | manhood's superiority | the Tahitian chiefs; here | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent superiority=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | manhood | manhood's permanent home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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