Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 28
The new boat of the king’s son, Ulu, was evidently destined for some very important expedition.
What happens: destine · To what, where: new boat
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: 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 | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boat | amod |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 son | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ulu | punct |
| 10 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boat | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 destined | aux:pass |
| 13 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 14 destined | advmod |
| 14 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 expedition | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 expedition | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 important | advmod |
| 18 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 expedition | amod |
| 19 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destined | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 destined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destine | past · passive | the new boat of the king's son | for some important expedition; evidently property | tree rules |
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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