Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 34
As king he had the right to perform those duties in person, assisted by his priest.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, perform, assist · To what, where: right, duties, person
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 king | case |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 right | det |
| 6 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 perform | mark |
| 8 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 right | acl |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 duties | det |
| 10 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 perform | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perform | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assisted | punct |
| 14 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 person | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 priest | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 priest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assisted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | the right | as king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | king not said here | that duties | in person | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme | |||
| 3 | assist | participle | person not said here | by king's priest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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