Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 70
The young men of royal blood, the king’s sons and their cousins, were set apart as the bodyguard of the old king.
What happens: set apart · To what, where: young men
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 set | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blood | amod |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sons | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blood | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cousins | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sons | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux:pass |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 17 set | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 bodyguard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bodyguard | det |
| 21 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 king | amod |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bodyguard | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set apart | past · passive | the young men of royal blood | as the bodyguard of the old king; apart property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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