Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 152
The fourth day the chiefs rested and the common people gave an exhibition of their attainments, and a sufficient number of canoe-makers, house-builders, fishermen and other helpers were easily secured.
Who acts: chiefs, common people · What happens: rest, give, secure, exhibit, attain · To what, where: exhibition, sufficient number, attainments
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 (chiefs, common people), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chiefs | det |
| 5 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rested | nsubj |
| 6 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 9 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rested | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 exhibition | det |
| 13 | exhibition | exhibition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 attainments | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 attainments | nmod:poss |
| 16 | attainments | attainment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 exhibition | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 secured | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 secured | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 20 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 number | amod |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 makers | case |
| 23 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 makers | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 canoe | punct |
| 25 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 builders | punct |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 builders | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 house | punct |
| 29 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 makers | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fishermen | punct |
| 31 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 makers | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 helpers | cc |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 helpers | amod |
| 34 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 makers | conj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 secured | aux:pass |
| 36 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 37 secured | advmod |
| 37 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rested | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the chiefs | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the common people | a exhibition of chiefs's attainments | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exhibition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | secure | past · passive | a sufficient number of canoe makers and house builders and fishermen and other helpers | easily property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exhibit | chiefs's attainments | nom exhibition «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | attain | chiefs = chief | nom attainment «act transitive»: poss=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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