Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 85
Sons of Kii, they were nevertheless sons of different queens of unequal rank; therefore Nanaulu owed allegiance to his brother.
Who acts: sons · What happens: be, owe · To what, where: sons, allegiance, 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 (sons), 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 | Sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 owed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Kii | case |
| 3 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sons | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sons | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sons | cop |
| 7 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 8 sons | advmod |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sons | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 queens | case |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 queens | amod |
| 11 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sons | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rank | case |
| 13 | unequal | unequal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rank | amod |
| 14 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 queens | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 owed | punct |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 owed | advmod |
| 17 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 owed | nsubj |
| 18 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 owed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sons = son | sons | of different queens of unequal rank; nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | owe | past | Sons of Kii and sons | allegiance | Nanaulu's brother | Nanaulu nsubj; therefore property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent allegiance=Theme to brother=Goal |
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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