Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 61
His prophets and priests, his teachers, have already been chosen.
What happens: choose · To what, where: prophets
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 prophets | nmod:poss |
| 2 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 priests | cc |
| 4 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prophets | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 teachers | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teachers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prophets | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prophets | punct |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 chosen | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 chosen | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 chosen | aux:pass |
| 12 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · perfect · passive | Kii's prophets and priests and Kii's teachers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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