Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 93
This needed attention, and some time was to be devoted to the oversight of the repairs called for.
What happens: need, devote, call · To what, where: oversight, repairs, needed attention · 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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 attention | det |
| 2 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attention | amod |
| 3 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 devoted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 devoted | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devoted | obj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 devoted | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 devoted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 devoted | aux:pass |
| 11 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attention | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 oversight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 oversight | det |
| 14 | oversight | oversight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devoted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 repairs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 repairs | det |
| 17 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 oversight | nmod |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 repairs | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 called | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | devote | past · passive | time | to the oversight of the repairs goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: to oversight=Goal | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the repairs not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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