Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 49
A number of chiefs at once yielded to this argument.
What happens: yield · To what, where: number, argument
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yielded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 chiefs | case |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 yielded | obl |
| 7 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 argument | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 argument | det |
| 10 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yielded | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | participle · passive | a number of chiefs | to this argument goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to argument=Goal |
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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