Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 39
Taunoa drew from under his cloak a feathery frond of the cocoanut, and raising it above his head, asked for an interview with the king.
Who acts: Taunoa · What happens: draw, raise, ask · To what, where: cocoanut, head
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 | Taunoa | Taunoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cloak | case |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 cloak | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 frond | det |
| 8 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 frond | amod |
| 9 | frond | frond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloak | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cocoanut | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cocoanut | det |
| 12 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frond | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 raising | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 raising | cc |
| 15 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 drew | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 raising | obj |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raising | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 interview | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 interview | det |
| 24 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 interview | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Taunoa | from Taunoa's cloak | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from cloak=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | Taunoa not said here | cocoanut | Taunoa's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme above head=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Taunoa not said here | for a interview with the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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