Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 29
“E Taunoa,” cried a chief to the two latest arrivals, calling one of them by the name of his district.
Who acts: Taunoa · What happens: cry, call, name · To what, where: chief, two latest arrivals, one, district · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Taunoa), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | E | e | INTJ | _ | 3 Taunoa | discourse |
| 3 | Taunoa | Taunoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Taunoa | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Taunoa | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 arrivals | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arrivals | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 arrivals | nummod |
| 12 | latest | latest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arrivals | amod |
| 13 | arrivals | arrival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chief | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 calling | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calling | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 district | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 district | nmod:poss |
| 24 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Taunoa | a chief | the two latest arrivals | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Topic to arrival=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | Taunoa not said here | one of chiefs | by the name of Taunoa's district | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 3 | name | Taunoa's district | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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