Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 53
Both King George and King Kalaniopuu were equally obstinate in the determination to rule the lands across the waters.
Who acts: George · What happens: be, rule · To what, where: determination, lands, waters
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 (George), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 George | nsubj |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | nmod:desc |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 obstinate | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 King | cc |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | conj |
| 6 | Kalaniopuu | Kalaniopuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | flat |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 obstinate | cop |
| 8 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 9 obstinate | advmod |
| 9 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 determination | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 determination | det |
| 12 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obstinate | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rule | mark |
| 14 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 obstinate | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lands | det |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rule | obj |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rule | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 obstinate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | George King and King | the determination | equally, obstinate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rule | to-infinitive | George King and King not said here | the lands | the waters | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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