Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 89
Sometimes for personal reasons, such as intermarriage or friendship, a chief would be led to espouse the cause of a new king.
Who acts: chief · What happens: lead, espouse, cause · To what, where: chief, cause, new king
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 (chief), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 led | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 reasons | case |
| 3 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reasons | amod |
| 4 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 led | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 intermarriage | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 intermarriage | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | intermarriage | intermarriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reasons | appos |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 friendship | cc |
| 10 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 intermarriage | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reasons | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 led | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 led | aux:pass |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 espouse | mark |
| 18 | espouse | espouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 led | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cause | det |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 espouse | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 king | amod |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | would · passive | a chief | for personal reasons; sometimes property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | espouse | to-infinitive | a chief not said here | the cause of a new king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | a new king | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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