Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 120
In the afternoon the followers of Nanaulu were tested and a like bodyguard selected for this young prince.
What happens: test, select · To what, where: followers, like bodyguard
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: 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 afternoon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 afternoon | det |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tested | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 followers | det |
| 5 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Nanaulu | case |
| 7 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 followers | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tested | aux:pass |
| 9 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bodyguard | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bodyguard | det |
| 12 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bodyguard | amod |
| 13 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tested | conj |
| 14 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bodyguard | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 prince | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 prince | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 selected | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | past · passive | the followers of Nanaulu | afternoon | a like bodyguard conj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | select | participle | a like bodyguard not said here | for this young prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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