Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 199
Thus the contests ended, and thus by a skilful use of Polynesian games companions were selected for the sons of Kii in their long journey to Hawaii.
Who acts: contests · What happens: end, select, use, journey · To what, where: companions, long journey, Polynesian games
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: who acts (contests), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 ended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contests | det |
| 3 | contests | contest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 use | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 use | cc |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 use | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 use | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 use | det |
| 10 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 use | amod |
| 11 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 games | case |
| 13 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 games | amod |
| 14 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | nmod |
| 15 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 selected | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 selected | aux:pass |
| 17 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 games | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sons | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sons | det |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 selected | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kii | case |
| 22 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sons | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 journey | nmod:poss |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 journey | amod |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 selected | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Hawaii | case |
| 28 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 journey | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the contests | by a skilful use of Polynesian games; thus property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | select | past · passive | companions | contests's long journey to Hawaii | for the sons of Kii | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | use | Polynesian games | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | journey | contests = contest | to Hawaii | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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