Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 64
On the third day the king and his high chiefs will be judges of wrestling contests.
Who acts: high chiefs · What happens: be · To what, where: judges
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 (high chiefs), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 judges | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chiefs | amod |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 judges | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 judges | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 judges | cop |
| 13 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 contests | case |
| 15 | wrestling | wrestling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 contests | compound |
| 16 | contests | contest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 judges | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | king's high chiefs | judges | of wrestling contests | 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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