Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 41
Trumpet shells responded from the temple and from the king’s residence.
What happens: respond · To what, where: Trumpet shells, temple
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: 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 | Trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shells | compound |
| 2 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shells | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 responded | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 residence | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 residence | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 residence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 temple | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | participle | Trumpet shells not said here | the temple and the king's residence | vn respond-113 «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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