Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 20
However, the elder chief was of lower rank than the other, because his ancestry had not been guarded with the same jealous care that surrounded the birth of his friend.
Who acts: elder chief · What happens: be, not guard, surround · To what, where: ancestry, same jealous care
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 (elder chief), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 chief | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rank | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rank | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rank | case |
| 8 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 rank | amod |
| 9 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 other | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rank | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guarded | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 guarded | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ancestry | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guarded | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 guarded | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 guarded | aux:pass |
| 20 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rank | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 care | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 care | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 care | amod |
| 24 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 care | amod |
| 25 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guarded | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 care | acl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 birth | det |
| 29 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 surrounded | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 friend | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 friend | nmod:poss |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 birth | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the elder chief | of lower rank; than the other | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not guard | past · perfect · passive | chief's ancestry | with the same jealous care | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | the same jealous care | the birth of chief's friend obj | 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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