Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 92
Insult or injury at the hands of a superior chief was always considered good grounds for a transfer of allegiance.
What happens: consider, transfer · To what, where: Insult, allegiance
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 | Insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 injury | cc |
| 3 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Insult | conj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hands | det |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Insult | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 9 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chief | amod |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hands | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 considered | aux:pass |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 considered | advmod |
| 13 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grounds | amod |
| 15 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 considered | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 transfer | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 transfer | det |
| 18 | transfer | transfer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 considered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 allegiance | case |
| 20 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transfer | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | Insult at the hands of a superior chief or injury | for a transfer of allegiance; good grounds obj; always property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme grounds=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | transfer | allegiance | nom transfer «act 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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