Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 184
In this contest were used circular stones, flat-sided, of different sizes, according to the pleasure of the contestants.
What happens: use, accord, please · To what, where: circular stones, contest, contestants
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 contest | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 contest | det |
| 3 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stones | amod |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sided | punct |
| 9 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sided | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 flat | punct |
| 11 | sided | sided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stones | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sizes | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sizes | case |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sizes | amod |
| 15 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pleasure | punct |
| 17 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pleasure | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 according | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pleasure | det |
| 20 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 contestants | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 contestants | det |
| 23 | contestants | contestant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pleasure | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | circular stones | this contest | of different sizes; the pleasure of the contestants parataxis | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: stone=Patient | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | please | the contestants | nom pleasure «feeling 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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