Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 22
He chanted the charms which would control the action of the gods of the seas over which the boats might sail.
Who acts: prisoner, charms, boats, gods · What happens: chant, control, sail, act · To what, where: charms, action, seas
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, charms, boats, 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 chanted | nsubj |
| 2 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 charms | det |
| 4 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chanted | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 control | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 control | aux |
| 7 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 charms | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 action | det |
| 9 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 control | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gods | det |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 action | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 seas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seas | det |
| 15 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gods | nmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sail | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boats | det |
| 19 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sail | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 sail | aux |
| 21 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seas | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | prisoner | the charms | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Topic | ||||
| 2 | control | would | the charms | the action of the gods of the seas | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sail | might | the boats | the seas | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over which=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | act | the gods of the seas | nom action «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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