Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 38
As they approached the dignified high chiefs they all prostrated themselves to the ground except Okela and Taunoa.
Who acts: crowds · What happens: approach, dignify, prostrate · To what, where: dignified high chiefs, crowds
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 (crowds), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 approached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chiefs | det |
| 5 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chiefs | amod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chiefs | amod |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 approached | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prostrated | nsubj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 prostrated | advmod |
| 10 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chiefs | acl:relcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 prostrated | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prostrated | obl |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 Okela | case |
| 16 | Okela | Okela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Taunoa | cc |
| 18 | Taunoa | Taunoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Okela | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | crowds = crowd | the dignified high chiefs | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dignify | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | prostrate | past | crowds = crowd | crowds = crowd | to the ground except Okela and Taunoa | 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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