Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 75
Then some time in the early part of the eighteenth century a king of Oahu involuntarily made a journey which was celebrated as a part of his genealogical chant.
Who acts: king · What happens: make, celebrate, chant · To what, where: journey
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 (king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 made | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 century | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 century | det |
| 10 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 century | amod |
| 11 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Oahu | case |
| 15 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 17 made | advmod |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 journey | det |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 22 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 journey | acl:relcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 part | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 part | det |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 celebrated | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 chant | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 chant | nmod:poss |
| 28 | genealogical | genealogical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chant | amod |
| 29 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 part | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a king of Oahu | a journey | then; time | involuntarily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | ||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | a journey | as a part of King's genealogical chant | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as part=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | chant | King | nom chant «communication transitive»: poss=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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