Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 41
At last Kahahana called the high chiefs and those belonging to the highest priesthood together for consultation concerning the affairs of the kingdom.
Who acts: those, consultation · What happens: call, belong, concern · To what, where: high chiefs, affairs · 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 (those, consultation), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Kahahana | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Kahahana | amod |
| 3 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chiefs | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chiefs | amod |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 belonging | cc |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 belonging | nsubj |
| 10 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 chiefs | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 priesthood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priesthood | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 priesthood | amod |
| 14 | priesthood | priesthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 belonging | obl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 priesthood | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 consultation | case |
| 17 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 priesthood | nmod |
| 18 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 consultation | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 affairs | det |
| 20 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 concerning | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 affairs | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the high chiefs | at last Kahahana | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at kahahana=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | belong | gerund | those | to the highest priesthood for consultation | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | consultation not said here | the affairs of the kingdom | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus affair=Experiencer |
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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