Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 18
Among these, whalebone and the very scarce whale’s teeth were most prominent.
What happens: be
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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 whalebone | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 whalebone | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 whalebone | punct |
| 4 | whalebone | whalebone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prominent | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 teeth | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whale | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 scarce | advmod |
| 8 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whale | amod |
| 9 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 whale | case |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whalebone | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prominent | cop |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 prominent | advmod |
| 14 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 prominent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | among this whalebone and the scarce whale's teeth; prominent property | tree rules |
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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