Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 243
She proposed that the royal prince, Kiwalao, her son, be sent as ambassador.
Who acts: queen · What happens: propose, send · To what, where: royal prince
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 (queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 proposed | nsubj |
| 2 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 prince | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prince | amod |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proposed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kiwalao | punct |
| 8 | Kiwalao | Kiwalao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 prince | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Kiwalao | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 proposed | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 ambassador | case |
| 16 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | queen | the royal prince | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | infinitive · passive | queen not said here | as ambassador | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |
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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