Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 51
The daughters of the chiefs of the districts Kualoa, Kaalaea and Kaneohe, all on the island Oahu, were selected and married to him in the midst of a great round of feasts and games.
What happens: select, marry · To what, where: daughters, Oahu, midst
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: 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 daughters | det |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 selected | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 chiefs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chiefs | det |
| 5 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 daughters | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 districts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 districts | det |
| 8 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chiefs | nmod |
| 9 | Kualoa | Kualoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 districts | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Kaalaea | punct |
| 11 | Kaalaea | Kaalaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kualoa | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Kaneohe | cc |
| 13 | Kaneohe | Kaneohe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Kualoa | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 island | punct |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 island | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 island | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Kualoa | appos |
| 19 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 island | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 daughters | punct |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 selected | aux:pass |
| 22 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 married | cc |
| 24 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 selected | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 married | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 midst | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 midst | det |
| 29 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 married | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 round | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 round | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 round | amod |
| 33 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 midst | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 feasts | case |
| 35 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 round | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 games | cc |
| 37 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 feasts | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | past · passive | the daughters of the chiefs of the districts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | participle | Oahu | the midst of a great round of feasts and games | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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