Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 28
Liho-liho was glad to have the chiefs instructed and took 100 copies of the first primer for his friends and attendants.
Who acts: Liho liho, chiefs · What happens: be, have, instruct, take, copy · To what, where: 100 copies, first primer
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Liho liho, chiefs), 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 | Liho | Liho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liho | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Liho | punct |
| 3 | liho | liho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 instructed | nsubj |
| 10 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 instructed | conj |
| 13 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 copies | nummod |
| 14 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 primer | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 primer | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 primer | amod |
| 18 | primer | primer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 copies | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 primer | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 attendants | cc |
| 23 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 friends | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Liho liho | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | Liho liho not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other | past | the chiefs | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the chiefs not said here | 100 copies of the first primer for Kuakini's friends and attendants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | copy | the first primer for Kuakini's friends and attendants | nom copy «communication 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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