Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 19
They could both trace their high chief blood through more than a thousand years of royal ancestors.
Who acts: watchmen · What happens: trace · To what, where: high chief blood
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchmen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trace | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trace | aux |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 trace | advmod |
| 4 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blood | nmod:poss |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blood | amod |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blood | compound |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trace | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 13 thousand | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 more | fixed |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thousand | det |
| 13 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trace | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ancestors | case |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ancestors | amod |
| 17 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 years | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | could | watchmen = watchman | watchmen's high chief blood | year | both property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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