Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 83
This was Ulu, the younger brother, not over twenty-five years old, and his warm-hearted greeting of his elder brother, who during his boyhood had been his steadfast friend and caretaker, showed the deep love which bound them together.
Who acts: This, elder brother, Ulu, deep love, Nanaulu · What happens: be, show, bind, greet · To what, where: Ulu, steadfast friend, deep love, elder brother
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 (This, elder brother, Ulu, deep love), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Ulu | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Ulu | cop |
| 3 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ulu | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 years | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 years | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 five | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 twenty | punct |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brother | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 greeting | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 greeting | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 greeting | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 warm | punct |
| 21 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 greeting | amod |
| 22 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ulu | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 brother | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 brother | amod |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 greeting | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 friend | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 friend | nsubj |
| 29 | during | during | ADP | _ | 31 boyhood | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 boyhood | nmod:poss |
| 31 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 friend | obl |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 friend | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 friend | cop |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 friend | nmod:poss |
| 35 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 friend | amod |
| 36 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | appos |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 caretaker | cc |
| 38 | caretaker | caretaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 friend | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ulu | punct |
| 40 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 love | det |
| 42 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 love | amod |
| 43 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 showed | obj |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 bound | nsubj |
| 45 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 love | acl:relcl |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 bound | obj |
| 47 | together | together | ADV | _ | 45 bound | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | Ulu | the younger brother appos; Nanaulu's warm hearted greeting of Nanaulu's elder brother appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Nanaulu's elder brother | Nanaulu's steadfast friend and caretaker | during Nanaulu's boyhood | Nanaulu nmod:poss; caretaker conj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | show | past | Ulu | the deep love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bind | past | the deep love | Ulu | together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | greet | Nanaulu | Nanaulu's elder brother | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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