Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 36
The Kauai chiefs were never able to again lay any claim to Maui.
Who acts: Kauai chiefs · What happens: not be, lay · To what, where: claim
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 (Kauai chiefs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 2 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chiefs | compound |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 able | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lay | mark |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 claim | det |
| 11 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Maui | case |
| 13 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 claim | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Kauai chiefs | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | the Kauai chiefs not said here | any claim | again | to Maui | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result |
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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