Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 3
Meanwhile the king of Maui, Kahekili, seemed to be far more successful in extending the boundaries over which he exercised rule.
Who acts: king · What happens: seem, be, extend, exercise · To what, where: boundaries, rule
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Maui | case |
| 5 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kahekili | punct |
| 7 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Maui | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 successful | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 successful | cop |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 successful | advmod |
| 14 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 extending | mark |
| 16 | extending | extend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 successful | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boundaries | det |
| 18 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 extending | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 exercised | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 exercised | nsubj |
| 22 | exercised | exercise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 extending | conj |
| 23 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exercised | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the king of Maui and Kahekili | meanwhile property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the king of Maui and Kahekili not said here | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | extend | gerund | the king of Maui and Kahekili not said here | the boundaries | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent boundary=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exercise | past | king | rule | which obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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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