Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 119
In this way the forenoon passed, and at last a few noble chiefs, exquisite in the beauty of perfect muscular manhood, stood before the king, chosen to be the special bodyguard of Ulu in the mysterious journey of the coming days.
Who acts: forenoon · What happens: pass, stand, choose, be, come, journey · To what, where: way, king, special bodyguard, mysterious journey, coming days
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forenoon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forenoon | det |
| 5 | forenoon | forenoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exquisite | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 exquisite | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 exquisite | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chiefs | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chiefs | amod |
| 13 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chiefs | amod |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 last | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 16 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 passed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beauty | det |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exquisite | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 manhood | case |
| 21 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 manhood | amod |
| 22 | muscular | muscular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 manhood | amod |
| 23 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beauty | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chosen | punct |
| 30 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 king | acl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 bodyguard | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 bodyguard | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bodyguard | det |
| 34 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bodyguard | amod |
| 35 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chosen | advcl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Ulu | case |
| 37 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 bodyguard | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 journey | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 journey | det |
| 40 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 journey | amod |
| 41 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bodyguard | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 days | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 days | det |
| 44 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 days | amod |
| 45 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 journey | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the forenoon | this way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the forenoon not said here | before the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location | ||||
| 3 | choose | participle | the king not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the special bodyguard | the mysterious journey of the coming days | of Ulu | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | journey | the coming days | nom journey «act 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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