Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 140
During the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu only two men perfectly performed this difficult task.
What happens: perform, test · To what, where: difficult task, men
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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 test | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 test | det |
| 6 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 test | amod |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 course | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 test | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ulu | case |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Ulu | det |
| 13 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Nanaulu | cc |
| 15 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ulu | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 men | advmod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 men | nummod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 men | conj |
| 19 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 18 men | advmod |
| 20 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 task | det |
| 22 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 task | amod |
| 23 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 performed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | past | this difficult task | during the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu and two men | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme | ||||
| 2 | test | the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu and two men | nom test «cognition 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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