Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 118
He knew of only one priest in the island group who refused absolutely to acknowledge the superiority of Holoae, the high priest of Hawaii.
Who acts: preparation, island group · What happens: know, refuse, not acknowledge · To what, where: island group, superiority
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: who acts (preparation, island group), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 priest | case |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 priest | nummod |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 group | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 group | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 group | compound |
| 10 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 refused | nsubj |
| 12 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 group | acl:relcl |
| 13 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 15 acknowledge | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 acknowledge | mark |
| 15 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 refused | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 superiority | det |
| 17 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 acknowledge | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Holoae | case |
| 19 | Holoae | Holoae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 superiority | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 priest | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 priest | det |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 priest | amod |
| 23 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Holoae | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Hawaii | case |
| 25 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 priest | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | preparation | the island group | of one priest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of priest=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | the island group | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not acknowledge | to-infinitive | the island group not said here | the superiority of Holoae | absolutely property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent superiority=Topic |
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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