Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 87
Nanaulu requested that his own retainers might be given an opportunity to contest in the games and athletic exercises of the coming days.
Who acts: Nanaulu · What happens: request, give, contest, come, exercise · To what, where: own retainers, games, coming days
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 (Nanaulu), 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 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 requested | nsubj |
| 2 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 retainers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 retainers | amod |
| 6 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 requested | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 opportunity | det |
| 11 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 contest | mark |
| 13 | contest | contest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 opportunity | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 games | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 games | det |
| 16 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 contest | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 exercises | cc |
| 18 | athletic | athletic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 exercises | amod |
| 19 | exercises | exercise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 games | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 exercises | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | Nanaulu | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | might · passive | Nanaulu's own retainers | a opportunity obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | contest | to-infinitive | the games and athletic exercises of the coming days | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | exercise | the coming days | nom exercise «act transitive»: 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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