Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 58
For the message is to all, from the highest to the lowest.
What happens: be
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 message | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 message | det |
| 3 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 highest | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 highest | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 highest | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 highest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 highest | det |
| 10 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 lowest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lowest | det |
| 13 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 highest | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 highest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for the message; to all; to the lowest; high property | tree rules |
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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