Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 198
He was required to catch or stop at least four of these spears, not permitting more than two to pass by him.
What happens: require, catch, stop, not permit, pass · To what, where: condition, four, least, two
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 required | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 required | aux:pass |
| 3 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 catch | mark |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 required | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 stop | cc |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 catch | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 four | nmod |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stop | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 spears | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 spears | det |
| 13 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 four | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 permitting | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 permitting | advmod |
| 16 | permitting | permit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stop | advcl |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 19 two | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 more | fixed |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 permitting | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pass | mark |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 permitting | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pass | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | past · passive | condition | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | four of this spears | least | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality four=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not permit | gerund | two | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | by condition | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
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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