Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 195
The spear-catching contest was instituted as one of the final struggles.
What happens: institute · To what, where: catching contest
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 contest | det |
| 2 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catching | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 spear | punct |
| 4 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contest | compound |
| 5 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instituted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 instituted | aux:pass |
| 7 | instituted | institute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 instituted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 struggles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 struggles | det |
| 12 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 struggles | amod |
| 13 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 instituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | institute | past · passive | the catching contest | as one of the final struggles | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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