Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 50
The decision was announced that Laa must have wives given to him from among the young women of highest rank on Oahu, the home of Laa in his boyhood and still the place where the larger portion of his nearest relatives resided.
Who acts: Laa, larger portion · What happens: announce, have, give, reside · To what, where: decision, wives, temple · 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: who acts (Laa, larger portion), 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 | 2 decision | det |
| 2 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 announced | aux:pass |
| 4 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 6 | Laa | laa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 announced | ccomp |
| 9 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wives | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 women | case |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 women | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 women | amod |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rank | case |
| 19 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 rank | amod |
| 20 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 women | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Oahu | case |
| 22 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rank | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 home | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 home | det |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rank | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Laa | case |
| 27 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 home | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 boyhood | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 boyhood | nmod:poss |
| 30 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 home | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 place | cc |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 place | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boyhood | conj |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 resided | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 portion | det |
| 37 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 portion | amod |
| 38 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 resided | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 relatives | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 41 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 relatives | amod |
| 42 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 portion | nmod |
| 43 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 place | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past · passive | the decision | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | must | Laa | wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | wives not said here | temple | from the young women of highest rank on Oahu and the home of Laa in temple's boyhood and the place | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | reside | past | the larger portion of portion's nearest relatives | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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