Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 28
Fornander suggests that his older brother, Kahekili, king of Oahu, might have agreed to give him land or even the island as a reward.
Who acts: Fornander, older brother · What happens: suggest, agree, give · To what, where: land, Fornander
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 (Fornander, older brother), 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 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 suggests | nsubj |
| 2 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 agreed | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 agreed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kahekili | punct |
| 8 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Oahu | case |
| 12 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 agreed | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 agreed | aux |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 suggests | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 agreed | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 island | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 island | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 land | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 reward | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 reward | det |
| 27 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Fornander | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | might · perfect | Fornander's older brother | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fornander's older brother not said here | land or the island | Fornander | as a reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient land=Theme |
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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