Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 21
The Hawaiians received their white visitors as honoured guests, and permitted them to marry into noted chief-families.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: receive, honour, permit, marry, note · To what, where: white visitors, Hawaiians, noted chief families
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiians), 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 Hawaiians | det |
| 2 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 visitors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 visitors | amod |
| 6 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 received | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 guests | case |
| 8 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 guests | amod |
| 9 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 received | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 permitted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 permitted | cc |
| 12 | permitted | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 permitted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 permitted | xcomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 families | case |
| 17 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 families | amod |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 families | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 chief | punct |
| 20 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 marry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Hawaiians | Hawaiians's white visitors | as honoured guests | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme | |||
| 2 | honour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | permit | past | the Hawaiians not said here | Hawaiians = hawaiian | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Hawaiians not said here | noted chief families | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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