Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 26
1500, and became a king of Hawaii about A.D.
What happens: become · To what, where: 1500
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: 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 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 became | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 became | cc |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hawaii | case |
| 8 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 A.D | case |
| 10 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | 1500 | a king of Hawaii about A.D xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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