Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 95
Life and property and family were absolutely at the will of the high chief, but the servant could leave everything and seek another master.
Who acts: Life, servant · What happens: be, leave, seek · To what, where: everything, master
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 (Life, servant), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chief | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 property | cc |
| 3 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Life | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 family | cc |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Life | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chief | cop |
| 7 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 14 chief | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 will | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 will | det |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 chief | aux |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chief | amod |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servant | det |
| 18 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | aux |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 chief | parataxis |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seek | cc |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 leave | conj |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 master | det |
| 25 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seek | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Life and property and family | of the high chief; absolutely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | could | the servant | everything | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | the servant not said here | another master | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
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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