Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 21
Among the Hawaiians the “Ahaalii” or “council of nobles” guarded the rank of each chief and assigned to him a place according to the purity of his blood-royal.
Who acts: council · What happens: guard, assign, accord · To what, where: rank, place, chief
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 (council), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 6 Ahaalii | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hawaiians | det |
| 3 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Ahaalii | compound |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ahaalii | det |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ahaalii | punct |
| 6 | Ahaalii | Ahaalii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 guarded | obl |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ahaalii | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 council | cc |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 council | punct |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guarded | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nobles | case |
| 12 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 council | nmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 council | punct |
| 14 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rank | det |
| 16 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guarded | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rank | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 assigned | cc |
| 21 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 guarded | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 assigned | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 assigned | obj |
| 26 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 purity | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 according | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 purity | det |
| 29 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 place | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 royal | mark |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 royal | nmod:poss |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 royal | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 blood | punct |
| 34 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 purity | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past | council of nobles | the rank of each chief | among the Hawaiians Ahaalii | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | assign | participle | council of nobles not said here | a place | chief | accord the purity | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent place=Theme to he=Goal | ||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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