Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 47
To the king Taunoa at once presented his tuft of the cocoanut and was ordered to give his message.
What happens: present, order, give · To what, where: tuft, king, message
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 king | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presented | obl |
| 4 | Taunoa | Taunoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | appos |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 presented | obl |
| 7 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tuft | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presented | obj |
| 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 tuft | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ordered | aux:pass |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 presented | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 message | nmod:poss |
| 19 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | king's tuft of the cocoanut | the king | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tuft=Theme to king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | order | past · passive | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's message | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
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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