Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 81
Midway between the beach and the king’s house a young chief rushed down to meet Nanaulu.
What happens: rush down, meet · To what, where: young chief, Nanaulu, Midway
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 | Midway | Midway | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 beach | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Midway | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 house | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beach | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chief | amod |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Midway | appos |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 chief | acl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 rushed | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meet | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Midway | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush down | participle | a young chief not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Nanaulu | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nanaulu=Co-Agent |
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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