Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 127
Hundreds of natives having any kind of claim to chief’s blood had presented themselves for this contest.
Who acts: natives · What happens: have, present · To what, where: kind, Hundreds
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 (natives), 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 natives | case |
| 3 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 natives | acl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 claim | case |
| 8 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 blood | case |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claim | nmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 presented | aux |
| 14 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 presented | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 contest | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 contest | det |
| 18 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 presented | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | natives not said here | any kind of claim to chief's blood | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | present | past · perfect · passive | Hundreds of natives | for this contest; hundreds = hundred obj | tree rules |
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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