Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 12
It seems that they argued that it was best for the wife to go if a suitable return should be made in some way by the new King of Oahu.
Who acts: It, consultations · What happens: seem, argue, be, go, make · To what, where: suitable return, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (It, consultations), 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 | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 argued | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 argued | nsubj |
| 5 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 best | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 best | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | cop |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 argued | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 best | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wife | acl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 return | det |
| 17 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 return | amod |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 go | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 King | amod |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 way | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Oahu | case |
| 30 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 King | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | past | consultations = consultation | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | for the wife; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | make a condition, not said to happen | should · passive | a suitable return | some way by the new King of Oahu | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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