Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 14
During this conflict at home the high chiefs of the other islands held consultation concerning their common enemy and the best way to overthrow him.
Who acts: high chiefs, consultation · What happens: hold, concern, overthrow · To what, where: consultation, common enemy, man
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high chiefs, consultation), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 conflict | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 conflict | det |
| 3 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conflict | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefs | amod |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 islands | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 islands | amod |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chiefs | nmod |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 consultation | acl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enemy | amod |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 concerning | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 way | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enemy | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 overthrow | mark |
| 24 | overthrow | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 overthrow | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the high chiefs of the other islands | consultation | during this conflict at home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consultation=Theme | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | consultation not said here | islands's common enemy and the best way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | to-infinitive | consultation not said here | man | 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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