Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 89
Early in the morning of the next day the contests were opened by the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti, who called their best wrestlers together and chose the champions to contest with other champions from other districts.
Who acts: chiefs, Tahiti · What happens: open, call, choose, contest · To what, where: morning, best wrestlers, champions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chiefs, Tahiti), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 contests | det |
| 10 | contests | contest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | aux:pass |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chiefs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chiefs | det |
| 15 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 districts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 districts | det |
| 18 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 districts | amod |
| 19 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chiefs | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Tahiti | case |
| 21 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 districts | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Tahiti | acl:relcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wrestlers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 wrestlers | amod |
| 27 | wrestlers | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 called | obj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 called | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 chose | cc |
| 30 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 champions | det |
| 32 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 chose | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 contest | mark |
| 34 | contest | contest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 chose | xcomp |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 champions | case |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 champions | amod |
| 37 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 contest | obl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 districts | case |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 districts | amod |
| 40 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 champions | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti | the morning of the next day | the contests nsubj:pass | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | past | Tahiti | contests's best wrestlers | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wrestler=Recipient | |||
| 3 | choose | past | the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti not said here | the champions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | contest | to-infinitive | the chiefs of the various districts of Tahiti not said here | with other champions from other districts | tree rules |
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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