Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 26
Kila was said to be very careful and courageous with a strong desire to emulate the deeds of his ancestors.
What happens: say, be, emulate · To what, where: Kila, deeds · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Kila | Kila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 careful | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 careful | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 careful | advmod |
| 7 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 courageous | cc |
| 9 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 careful | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 desire | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 desire | det |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 desire | amod |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 courageous | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 emulate | mark |
| 15 | emulate | emulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 desire | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deeds | det |
| 17 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 emulate | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ancestors | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 deeds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | Kila | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | with a strong desire | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | emulate | to-infinitive | the deeds of Kila's ancestors | 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 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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