Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 50
He desires to still stand by his brother’s side and care for him in the place of Kii, the royal father.
Who acts: Nanaulu · What happens: desire, stand, care · To what, where: place
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 (Nanaulu), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 desires | nsubj |
| 2 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stand | mark |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stand | advmod |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desires | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 care | cc |
| 12 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stand | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 care | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 care | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Kii | case |
| 19 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 father | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 father | amod |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Kii | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | Nanaulu | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nanaulu not said here | still | by Nanaulu's brother's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||
| 3 | care | infinitive | Nanaulu not said here | the place of Kii | for Nanaulu | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=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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