Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 11
It was easy for the King of Maui to control the line of thought as advanced by his chiefs.
What happens: be, control, think, advance · To what, where: line
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 easy | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Maui | case |
| 8 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 control | mark |
| 10 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 control | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 line | acl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 advanced | mark |
| 16 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thought | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 chiefs | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 advanced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for the King of Maui; easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | control | to-infinitive | the line | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | participle | the line not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | advance | participle | by King's chiefs | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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