Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 33
I was sent to announce his coming to his father, the king.
Who acts: Taunoa · What happens: send, announce, come · To what, where: I · 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 announce | mark |
| 5 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 announce | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 king | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | I | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | come | gerund | Taunoa | to Taunoa's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location |
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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