Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 196
A difficult condition was attached to this spear-catching.
What happens: attach · To what, where: difficult condition
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 | 3 condition | det |
| 2 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 condition | amod |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attached | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attached | aux:pass |
| 5 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 catching | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 catching | det |
| 8 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 catching | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 spear | punct |
| 10 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attached | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | past · passive | a difficult condition | to this spear catching | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to catching=Co-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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