Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 246
He was attended by high chiefs carrying the royal kahili, or large feather banner, and a royal calabash.
Who acts: high chiefs · What happens: attend, carry · To what, where: Kiwalao, royal kahili
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 (high chiefs), 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 | 3 attended | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 attended | aux:pass |
| 3 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 chiefs | case |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefs | amod |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attended | obl:agent |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chiefs | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kahili | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kahili | amod |
| 10 | kahili | kahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 banner | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 banner | cc |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 banner | amod |
| 14 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banner | compound |
| 15 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kahili | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 calabash | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 calabash | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 calabash | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 calabash | amod |
| 20 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attended | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past · passive | high chiefs | Kiwalao | a royal calabash conj | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | high chiefs not said here | the royal kahili or large feather banner | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kahili=Theme |
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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