Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 86
After the wailing was over the boat was carried to the king’s house, while the two brothers discussed plans.
Who acts: wailing, two brothers · What happens: be, carry, discuss · To what, where: house, plans
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 (wailing, two brothers), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wailing | det |
| 3 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boat | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boat | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 discussed | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 discussed | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brothers | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 brothers | nummod |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 discussed | nsubj |
| 20 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | conj |
| 21 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 discussed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wailing | after the boat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | the king's house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to house=Destination | |||||
| 3 | discuss speech: other | past | the two brothers | plans | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Topic |
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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