Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 136
Paao robed himself in a high-priest’s tabu mantle of black feathers, wearing a white helmet ornamented with black plumes.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: robe, wear, ornament · To what, where: Paao, white helmet
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 robed | nsubj |
| 2 | robed | robe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 robed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mantle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 priest | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 high | punct |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 priest | case |
| 10 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mantle | compound |
| 11 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 robed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 feathers | case |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feathers | amod |
| 14 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mantle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wearing | punct |
| 16 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 robed | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 helmet | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 helmet | amod |
| 19 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wearing | obj |
| 20 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 helmet | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 plumes | case |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plumes | amod |
| 23 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ornamented | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 robed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | robe | past | Paao | Paao | in a high priest's tabu mantle of black feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in mantle=Theme | |||
| 2 | wear | gerund | Paao not said here | a white helmet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ornament | participle | a white helmet not said here | with black plumes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plume=Theme |
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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