Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 152
They belonged to a high chief family and appeared to have assumed authority without opposition.
Who acts: followers · What happens: belong, appear, have, assume · To what, where: assumed authority
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 (followers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belonged | nsubj |
| 2 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 family | amod |
| 6 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 family | amod |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belonged | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 appeared | cc |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 belonged | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 appeared | xcomp |
| 12 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 authority | amod |
| 13 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 opposition | case |
| 15 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | followers = follower | to a high chief family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | followers = follower not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | followers = follower not said here | assumed authority | without opposition | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient | |||
| 4 | assume | participle | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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