Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 5
He was possessed of supernatural power and made use of all manner of enchantments.
What happens: possess, make, use · To what, where: name, use, manner
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 possessed | aux:pass |
| 3 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 power | case |
| 5 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 power | amod |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possessed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 possessed | conj |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 manner | det |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 enchantments | case |
| 14 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 manner | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past · passive | name | of supernatural power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | use of all manner of enchantments | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | |||||
| 3 | use | all manner of enchantments | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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