Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 21
He sang of the boat building and the protecting care of the gods.
Who acts: prisoner, gods · What happens: sing, protect, care
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, gods), 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 | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 building | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 building | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | compound |
| 6 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 care | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 care | det |
| 9 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 care | amod |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 care | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | prisoner | of the boat building and the protecting care of the gods | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | protect | gerund | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | care | the gods | nom care «act 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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