Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 106
Sometimes its absence from the palace marked the king’s departure for some other island.
Who acts: absence, government, king · What happens: mark, absent, depart · To what, where: departure, palace
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absence, government, king), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 marked | advmod |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 absence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 absence | nmod |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 departure | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 island | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 island | amod |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | government's absence from the palace | the king's departure | for some other island; sometimes property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent departure=Destination | |||
| 2 | absent | government | the palace | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent from=place | |||||
| 3 | depart | the king | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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