Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 203
Instead of the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia, the sons of Kii probably made their way to the new Hawaii and there founded two races of kings.
Who acts: kings · What happens: make, found, race · To what, where: way, two races
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 (kings), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 5 home | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 home | det |
| 4 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 home | amod |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Polynesians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Polynesians | det |
| 8 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 home | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Polynesians | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Asia | case |
| 13 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sons | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sons | det |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Polynesians | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kii | case |
| 18 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sons | nmod |
| 19 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Hawaii | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Hawaii | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Hawaii | amod |
| 26 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 founded | cc |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 founded | advmod |
| 29 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 made | conj |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 races | nummod |
| 31 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 founded | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 kings | case |
| 33 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 races | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | sons's way | instead the original home of the Polynesians on the coast of Asia; to the new Hawaii; probably property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | ||||
| 2 | found | participle | two races of kings | there | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | ||||
| 3 | race | kings | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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