Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 69
The high priest reminded the chiefs also concerning the ivory of Oahu, that this, too, was a proof of the favour of the gods.
Who acts: high priest · What happens: remind, concern, be, favour · To what, where: chiefs, ivory, proof, gods
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 (high priest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 priest | amod |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reminded | nsubj |
| 4 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chiefs | det |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reminded | obj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 concerning | advmod |
| 8 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 this | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ivory | det |
| 10 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concerning | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Oahu | case |
| 12 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ivory | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 this | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 this | mark |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reminded | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 reminded | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 proof | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 proof | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 proof | det |
| 21 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reminded | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 favour | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 favour | det |
| 24 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proof | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gods | det |
| 27 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 favour | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | the high priest | the chiefs | concern this | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the ivory of Oahu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ivory=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a proof | of the favour of the gods | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | favour | the gods | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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