Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 80

Standing by the mast of the canoe was Nanaulu, a chief of splendid physical appearance, about thirty years of age, before whom all the people prostrated themselves as he was carried by.

Who acts: people · What happens: stand, be, prostrate, carry · To what, where: Nanaulu, canoes, great

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 (people), 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	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 mast	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mast	det
4	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Nanaulu	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 canoe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 canoe	det
7	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mast	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Nanaulu	cop
9	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chief	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chief	det
12	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Nanaulu	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 appearance	case
14	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appearance	amod
15	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appearance	amod
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chief	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 years	punct
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 thirty	advmod
19	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Nanaulu	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 age	case
22	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 years	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 prostrated	punct
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 prostrated	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 people	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 prostrated	nsubj
29	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Nanaulu	acl:relcl
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 prostrated	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 carried	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carried	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 carried	aux:pass
34	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 prostrated	advcl
35	by	by	ADP	_	34 carried	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		Nanaulu		by the mast of the canoe; a chief of splendid physical appearance appos	tree rules
3	prostrate	past	all people	canoes = canoe	before Nanaulu		tree rules
4	carry	past · passive		great			vn carry-11.4 «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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 80

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 80