Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 35
I found this young chief of Vai-ta-piha on his way hither, and made him my companion.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, make · To what, where: young chief, way, companion, Taunoa
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 (I), 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 | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 piha | case |
| 7 | Vai | Vai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 piha | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vai | punct |
| 9 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piha | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ta | punct |
| 11 | piha | piha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 15 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 14 way | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 companion | nmod:poss |
| 21 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | this young chief of Vai ta piha | Taunoa's way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | past | I not said here | my companion | Taunoa | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary companion=Product |
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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