Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 33
This was an especial offering to Laa, a reminder of the high esteem in which his foster father still held him, and a proof of the intense desire for him to visit his native land.
Who acts: This, foster father · What happens: be, hold, visit, remind, proof · To what, where: especial offering, Laa, Kila, high esteem, native land, intense desire
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 (This, foster father), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 offering | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offering | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 offering | det |
| 4 | especial | especial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 offering | amod |
| 5 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Laa | case |
| 7 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 offering | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reminder | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reminder | det |
| 10 | reminder | reminder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Laa | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 esteem | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 esteem | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 esteem | amod |
| 14 | esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reminder | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 held | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 father | compound |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | nsubj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 held | advmod |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 esteem | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 held | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 proof | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 proof | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 proof | det |
| 26 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offering | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 desire | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 desire | det |
| 29 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 desire | amod |
| 30 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 proof | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 desire | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 visit | mark |
| 34 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 proof | acl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 land | nmod:poss |
| 36 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 land | amod |
| 37 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 visit | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a especial offering and a proof of the intense desire for Kila | Laa | a proof of the intense desire for Kila conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | hold | past | Kila's foster father | Kila | the high esteem | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in which=Location | ||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | This not said here | Kila's native land | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | remind | the high esteem | nom reminder «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | proof | the intense desire for Kila | nom proof «cognition 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 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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