Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 244
Kiwalao was robed with all the royal elegance of a king according to the customs of that almost naked, savage life.
What happens: robe, accord · To what, where: Kiwalao
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 | Kiwalao | Kiwalao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 robed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 robed | aux:pass |
| 3 | robed | robe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 elegance | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 elegance | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elegance | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 elegance | amod |
| 8 | elegance | elegance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 elegance | nmod |
| 12 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 customs | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 according | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 customs | det |
| 15 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 robed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 life | nsubj |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 naked | advmod |
| 19 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 naked | punct |
| 21 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 customs | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 robed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | robe | past · passive | Kiwalao | with all royal elegance of a king; accord the customs of naked savage life that | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with elegance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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