Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 90
After the king had taken his place the ceremonies of the day were introduced by the royal ceremonial dance.
Who acts: royal ceremonial dance · What happens: take, introduce · To what, where: place, ceremonies
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 (royal ceremonial dance), 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 | _ | 3 king | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ceremonies | det |
| 9 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ceremonies | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 introduced | aux:pass |
| 14 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taken | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 dance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dance | amod |
| 18 | ceremonial | ceremonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dance | amod |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | king's place | after the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | introduce | past · passive | the royal ceremonial dance | the ceremonies of the day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/90/