Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 103
The highest chiefs were called alii-tabu—the tabu chiefs.
What happens: call · To what, where: highest chiefs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 2 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 chiefs | amod |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alii | alii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tabu | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 alii | punct |
| 8 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 chiefs | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chiefs | det |
| 11 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chiefs | compound |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the highest chiefs | alii tabu xcomp; the tabu chiefs conj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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