Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 53
“Your message gives joy,” and then was borne into the midst of the group of high chiefs.
Who acts: message · What happens: give, bear · To what, where: joy, midst
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 (message), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 message | nmod:poss |
| 3 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 borne | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 borne | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 borne | aux:pass |
| 11 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gives | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 midst | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 midst | det |
| 14 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 borne | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 group | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 group | det |
| 17 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 midst | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chiefs | case |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chiefs | amod |
| 20 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 group | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | Your message | joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Your message not said here | the midst of the group of high chiefs | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/53/