Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 84
Allegiance could be transferred from one king to another, or from island to island, without loss of rank.
What happens: transfer · To what, where: Allegiance, another
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 | Allegiance | Allegiance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 transferred | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 transferred | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 transferred | aux:pass |
| 4 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 king | nummod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transferred | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 another | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 transferred | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 island | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 island | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transferred | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 island | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loss | punct |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 loss | case |
| 18 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transferred | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rank | case |
| 20 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 loss | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 transferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transfer | could · passive | Allegiance | another | from one king; without loss of rank; island to island parataxis | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from king=Initial_Location to another=Destination |
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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