Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 20
Some of the brothers were jealous, but the eldest addressed the others as follows:
Who acts: brothers, eldest · What happens: be, address, follow · To what, where: others
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, eldest), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 brothers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jealous | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jealous | cop |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 addressed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 addressed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eldest | det |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 addressed | nsubj |
| 11 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 jealous | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 addressed | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 follows | mark |
| 15 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 addressed | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | some brothers | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | address | participle | the eldest | the others | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | the eldest not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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