Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 19
A priest stepped forth from the little company of leaders.
What happens: step · To what, where: priest, little company
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 priest | acl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 company | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 company | amod |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 leaders | case |
| 10 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 company | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 priest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | participle | a priest not said here | the little company of leaders | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from company=Trajectory |
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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