Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 126
The rider with the swiftest and most skilfully managed surf board was chosen from each group.
What happens: manage, choose · To what, where: managed surf board, group
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rider | det |
| 2 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swiftest | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 swiftest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swiftest | det |
| 5 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chosen | cc |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 skilfully | advmod |
| 8 | skilfully | skilfully | ADV | _ | 9 managed | advmod |
| 9 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 board | amod |
| 10 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 board | compound |
| 11 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chosen | aux:pass |
| 13 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 swiftest | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 group | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 group | det |
| 16 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swiftest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | participle | skilfully property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | choose | past · passive | managed surf board | each group | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from group=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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