Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 84
Monday afternoon the king and chiefs and several thousand people gathered in the new native stone church, Kawaiahao, and held an enthusiastic praise meeting.
Who acts: Monday afternoon · What happens: gather, hold · To what, where: new native stone church, enthusiastic praise meeting
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 (Monday afternoon), 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 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 afternoon | compound |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chiefs | cc |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 king | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 people | cc |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thousand | amod |
| 9 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 people | nummod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chiefs | conj |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 church | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 church | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 church | amod |
| 15 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 church | amod |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 church | compound |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kawaiahao | punct |
| 19 | Kawaiahao | Kawaiahao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 church | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gathered | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 meeting | det |
| 24 | enthusiastic | enthusiastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meeting | amod |
| 25 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meeting | compound |
| 26 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Monday afternoon | the new native stone church | the king and chiefs and thousand people nsubj | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past | Monday afternoon not said here | a enthusiastic praise meeting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=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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