Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 45
King Kii was borne on the shoulders of a stalwart slave, supported by two other slaves, while ranks of trusted chiefs walked by his side.
Who acts: ranks · What happens: bear, support, trust, walk · To what, where: King, shoulders
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 (ranks), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 borne | nsubj |
| 2 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | aux:pass |
| 4 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shoulders | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shoulders | det |
| 7 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 borne | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 slave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 slave | det |
| 10 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slave | compound |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoulders | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 supported | punct |
| 13 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 borne | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 slaves | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 slaves | nummod |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 slaves | amod |
| 17 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 supported | obl:agent |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walked | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 walked | mark |
| 20 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 chiefs | case |
| 22 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 chiefs | amod |
| 23 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ranks | nmod |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 side | nmod:poss |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | King | the shoulders of a stalwart slave | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | support | participle | two other slaves obl:agent | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past | ranks of trusted chiefs | by king's side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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