Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 132
At last the Maui priest informed his king that he was assured by the gods of final victory.
Who acts: last Maui priest, gods · What happens: inform, assure · To what, where: king, priest · 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: who acts (last Maui priest, gods), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 priest | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 4 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 priest | compound |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 informed | nsubj |
| 6 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 king | nmod:poss |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 informed | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 assured | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 assured | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 assured | aux:pass |
| 12 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 informed | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 gods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gods | det |
| 15 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 assured | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 victory | case |
| 17 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 victory | amod |
| 18 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gods | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past | the last Maui priest | priest's king | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | assure | past · passive | the gods of final victory | priest | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 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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