Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 97

Each chief of the “Aha-alii” had the right to wear the beautiful feather lei, or wreath, and the feather cape, and the niho palaoa, or ivory hook, suspended from a heavy necklace of human hair.

Who acts: chief · What happens: have, wear, suspend · To what, where: right, beautiful feather lei, niho palaoa, heavy necklace

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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 alii	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 alii	det
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 alii	punct
6	Aha	aha	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alii	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Aha	punct
8	alii	alii	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chief	nmod
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 alii	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 right	det
12	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wear	mark
14	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 right	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lei	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lei	amod
17	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lei	compound
18	lei	lei	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wreath	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 wreath	cc
21	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lei	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cape	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cape	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cape	det
25	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cape	compound
26	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 palaoa	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 palaoa	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palaoa	det
30	niho	niho	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 palaoa	compound
31	palaoa	palaoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cape	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hook	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 hook	cc
34	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hook	amod
35	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 palaoa	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 suspended	punct
37	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 palaoa	acl
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 necklace	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 necklace	det
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 necklace	amod
41	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 suspended	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 hair	case
43	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hair	amod
44	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 necklace	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	each chief of the Aha alii	the right		the feather cape and the niho palaoa or ivory hook parataxis	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
2	wear	to-infinitive	each chief of the Aha alii not said here	the beautiful feather lei or wreath			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lei=Source
3	suspend	participle		the niho palaoa or ivory hook not said here	a heavy necklace of human hair		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from necklace=Source

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 97

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 97