Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 45
The highest chiefs among the Hawaiians were glad to ally themselves with Laa-mai-Kahiki.
Who acts: highest chiefs · What happens: be, ally · To what, where: chiefs
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 (highest chiefs), 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 chiefs | amod |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 Hawaiians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hawaiians | det |
| 6 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 chiefs | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 glad | cop |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ally | mark |
| 10 | ally | ally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glad | xcomp |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 ally | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Laa | case |
| 13 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 glad | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Laa | punct |
| 15 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 Laa | dep |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kahiki | punct |
| 17 | Kahiki | Kahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Laa | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the highest chiefs among the Hawaiians | with Laa and Kahiki; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ally | to-infinitive | the highest chiefs among the Hawaiians not said here | chiefs = chief | 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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