Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 20
In a strong and yet monotonous tone he began a chant of praise of Kii and his sons.
Who acts: prisoner · What happens: begin, chant, praise · To what, where: chant, strong tone, praise, Kii
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 (prisoner), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 tone | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tone | det |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tone | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 monotonous | cc |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 monotonous | advmod |
| 6 | monotonous | monotonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strong | conj |
| 7 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chant | det |
| 11 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 praise | case |
| 13 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chant | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kii | case |
| 15 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 praise | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sons | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sons | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Kii | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | prisoner | a chant of praise of Kii and prisoner's sons | a strong tone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | chant | praise of Kii and prisoner's sons | nom chant «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | praise | Kii and prisoner's sons | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=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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