Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 66
The people of Hawaii claimed that the Kauai king suffered sorely for his impiety.
Who acts: people, Kauai king · What happens: claim, suffer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, Kauai 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 claimed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Hawaii | case |
| 4 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 suffered | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffered | nsubj |
| 10 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 claimed | ccomp |
| 11 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 10 suffered | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 impiety | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 impiety | nmod:poss |
| 14 | impiety | impiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | the people of Hawaii | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | suffer | past | the Kauai king | for king's impiety; sorely property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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