Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 79
Admiral Thomas and the suspended king proceeded thither in a carriage, attended by the chiefs and a vast multitude of people.
Who acts: Thomas · What happens: suspend, proceed, attend · To what, where: carriage
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 (Thomas), 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 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thomas | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 proceeded | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 king | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thomas | conj |
| 7 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 7 proceeded | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 carriage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 carriage | det |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proceeded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attended | punct |
| 13 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 carriage | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 chiefs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chiefs | det |
| 16 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attended | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 multitude | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 multitude | det |
| 19 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 multitude | amod |
| 20 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chiefs | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 multitude | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | proceed | past | Thomas Admiral and the suspended king | a carriage | thither property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | attend | participle | a carriage not said here | by the chiefs and a vast multitude of people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by chief=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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