Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 176
The first and second runners to win in this race were to go as the messengers of Ulu and Nanaulu.
Who acts: first runners · What happens: win, go · To what, where: race
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 (first runners), 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 | 5 runners | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 runners | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 second | cc |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 first | conj |
| 5 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 win | mark |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 runners | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 race | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 win | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 messengers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 messengers | det |
| 16 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ulu | case |
| 18 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 messengers | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Nanaulu | cc |
| 20 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ulu | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the first runners not said here | this race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in race=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the first runners | as the messengers of Ulu and Nanaulu | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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