Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 174
He was a very high chief from Hawaii absorbed in the royal line of Tahiti.
Who acts: Laa, high chief · What happens: be, absorb · To what, where: high chief, Hawaii
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 (Laa, high chief), 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 | 6 chief | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chief | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chief | amod |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Hawaii | case |
| 8 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 absorbed | obl |
| 9 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chief | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 line | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 line | amod |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 absorbed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Tahiti | case |
| 15 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 line | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Laa | a high chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | absorb | past | a high chief not said here | Hawaii | in the royal line of Tahiti | vn learn-14-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from hawaii=Source |
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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