Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 47
There was the general feeling that this powerful chief, who would soon return to Raiatea, must leave descendants among the Hawaiians.
Who acts: general feeling, powerful chief · What happens: be, return, leave · To what, where: Raiatea, descendants, Hawaiians
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 (general feeling, powerful chief), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feeling | det |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | amod |
| 5 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 chief | det |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chief | amod |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 return | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 return | aux |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 return | advmod |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chief | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Raiatea | case |
| 16 | Raiatea | Raiatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 return | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chief | punct |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | aux |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feeling | acl |
| 20 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 Hawaiians | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hawaiians | det |
| 23 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 leave | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the general feeling | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | would | this powerful chief | Raiatea | soon property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to raiatea=Result | |||
| 3 | leave | must | this powerful chief | descendants | the Hawaiians | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent descendant=Theme among hawaiian=Location |
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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