Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 85
Once a chief, always a 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: 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 chief | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chief | punct |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 chief | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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