Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 177
The contests among the chiefs had resulted in the selection of a much larger number of chiefs than could possibly go with the two young princes.
Who acts: contests · What happens: result, go, select · To what, where: selection, larger number
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 (contests), 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 | 2 contests | det |
| 2 | contests | contest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 resulted | nsubj |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 chiefs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chiefs | det |
| 5 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contests | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 resulted | aux |
| 7 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 selection | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 selection | det |
| 10 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resulted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 number | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 larger | advmod |
| 14 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 number | amod |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 selection | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 chiefs | case |
| 17 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 resulted | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 princes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princes | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 princes | nummod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 princes | amod |
| 26 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | past · perfect | the contests among the chiefs | the selection of a larger number of chiefs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in selection=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | could | the contests among the chiefs not said here | with the two young princes; possibly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with prince=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | select | a larger number of chiefs | nom selection «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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