Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 62
They established families of great prominence and their descendants were proud of this distinction as “children of Laa.”
Who acts: facts, families · What happens: establish, be
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 (facts, families), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 established | nsubj |
| 2 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prominence | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prominence | amod |
| 6 | prominence | prominence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 families | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 descendants | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prominence | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 proud | cop |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 established | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 distinction | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 distinction | det |
| 14 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proud | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 children | punct |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 proud | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Laa | case |
| 19 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 children | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 established | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past | facts = fact | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | families of great prominence and facts's descendants | of this distinction; as children of Laa; proud property | 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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