Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 18
It is probable that some of the chiefs rebuked the king for his treatment of such a wise priest and prophet.
Who acts: confidence, some, king · What happens: be, rebuke, treat · To what, where: king, wise priest
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confidence, some, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 probable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 probable | cop |
| 3 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 rebuked | mark |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 rebuked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 some | nmod |
| 9 | rebuked | rebuke | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 probable | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rebuked | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 treatment | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rebuked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 priest | case |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 priest | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 priest | det |
| 18 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 priest | amod |
| 19 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treatment | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prophet | cc |
| 21 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 priest | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 probable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | confidence | probable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rebuke | past | some of the chiefs | the king | for king's treatment of such wise priest and prophet | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for treatment=Attribute | |||
| 3 | treat | king | such wise priest and prophet | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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