Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 174
During the day messengers of the chiefs competed for a place in the expedition.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: compete
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), 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 | _ | 4 messengers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 messengers | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 messengers | compound |
| 4 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 competed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chiefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chiefs | det |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 competed | nsubj |
| 8 | competed | compete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 competed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 expedition | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 expedition | det |
| 14 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 competed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compete | past | the chiefs | during the day messengers | for a place in the expedition | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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