Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 62
But now choice must be made of chiefs and warriors and common people.
What happens: make · To what, where: choice
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 choice | advmod |
| 3 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warriors | cc |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chiefs | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 people | cc |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chiefs | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must · passive | choice | of chiefs and warriors and common people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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