Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 35
When he had made full preparation he started on his journey, attended by the usual large train of servants and companions.
Who acts: king · What happens: make, start, attend, journey · To what, where: full preparation, journey
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 started | advcl |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 preparation | amod |
| 6 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attended | punct |
| 13 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 journey | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 train | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 train | det |
| 16 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 train | amod |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 train | amod |
| 18 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attended | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 servants | case |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 train | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 companions | cc |
| 22 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 servants | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | king | full preparation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Product | ||||
| 2 | start | past | king | king's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | attend | participle | king's journey not said here | by the usual large train of servants and companions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by train=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | king | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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