Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 139
A successful completion of such a ride marked a high degree of combined courage and training and judgment.
Who acts: successful completion · What happens: mark, combine, complete · To what, where: high degree, ride
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 (successful completion), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 completion | det |
| 2 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 completion | amod |
| 3 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ride | case |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 ride | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ride | det |
| 7 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 completion | nmod |
| 8 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 degree | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 degree | amod |
| 11 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 courage | case |
| 13 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 courage | amod |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 degree | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 training | cc |
| 16 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 courage | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 judgment | cc |
| 18 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 courage | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | a successful completion of such ride | a high degree of combined courage and training and judgment | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent degree=Destination | ||||
| 2 | combine | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | complete | such ride | nom completion «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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