Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 3
He had been the ruling chief since 1754.
Who acts: Captain · What happens: rule, be · To what, where: ruling chief
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 (Captain), 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 | 6 chief | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chief | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 chief | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 5 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chief | amod |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 1754 | case |
| 8 | 1754 | 1754 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 chief | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Captain | the ruling chief | since 1754 | tree rules |
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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