Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 6
In the later years of Hawaiian history, two of the most prominent high priests in all the islands were among the descendants of these foreigners.
What happens: be
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 3 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 descendants | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 history | case |
| 6 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 two | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 history | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 priests | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 priests | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 prominent | advmod |
| 13 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 priests | amod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 priests | amod |
| 15 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 two | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 islands | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 islands | det |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 priests | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 descendants | cop |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 descendants | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 descendants | det |
| 23 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 foreigners | case |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 foreigners | det |
| 26 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 descendants | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 descendants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | year | among the descendants; of this foreigners | tree rules |
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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