Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 200
The wives of the young princes and some of the chiefs and warriors and boatmen were given places by the side of their husbands.
Who acts: side · What happens: give · To what, where: wives
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 (side), 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 | 2 wives | det |
| 2 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 princes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princes | amod |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wives | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 some | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 princes | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chiefs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chiefs | det |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 warriors | cc |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chiefs | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 boatmen | cc |
| 15 | boatmen | boatman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chiefs | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 husbands | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the side of wives's husbands | the wives of the young princes | places obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient place=Theme |
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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