Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 44
The great event by which Laa was indelibly impressed upon the legends of Hawaii was his triple marriage with three selected chiefesses of the island Oahu.
Who acts: Laa, great event · What happens: be, select · To what, where: triple marriage
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 (Laa, great event), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 event | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 event | amod |
| 3 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marriage | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 impressed | obl |
| 6 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 impressed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 impressed | cop |
| 8 | indelibly | indelibly | ADV | _ | 9 impressed | advmod |
| 9 | impressed | impressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 event | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 legends | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 legends | det |
| 12 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 impressed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Hawaii | case |
| 14 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 legends | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 marriage | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | triple | triple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 marriage | amod |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 chiefesses | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 chiefesses | nummod |
| 21 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 chiefesses | amod |
| 22 | chiefesses | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 marriage | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 island | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chiefesses | nmod |
| 26 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 island | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 marriage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Laa | by the great event; upon the legends of Hawaii; impressed, indelibly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the great event | Hawaii's triple marriage | with three selected chiefesses of the island; Hawaii nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | select | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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