Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 65
On the fourth day will be struggles in the surf; or, if the sea gods are not propitious the chiefs will contest on the hillsides and in the games of physical strength.
Who acts: sea gods, chiefs · What happens: be, not be, contest · To what, where: struggles, surf, hillsides
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 (sea gods, 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 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggles | obl |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 struggles | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 struggles | cop |
| 7 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 surf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 surf | det |
| 10 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggles | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 contest | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 contest | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 or | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 propitious | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gods | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gods | compound |
| 17 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 propitious | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 propitious | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 propitious | advmod |
| 20 | propitious | propitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 contest | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chiefs | det |
| 22 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 contest | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 contest | aux |
| 24 | contest | contest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 struggles | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 hillsides | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hillsides | det |
| 27 | hillsides | hillside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 contest | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 games | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 games | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 games | det |
| 31 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hillsides | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 strength | case |
| 33 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 strength | amod |
| 34 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 games | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struggles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | struggles | the surf | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | the sea gods | propitious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | contest | future | the chiefs | the hillsides and the games of physical strength | 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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