Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 161
He visited the inferior chief of any district at pleasure.
Who acts: Hawaii · What happens: visit · To what, where: inferior chief
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 (Hawaii), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 visited | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 district | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 district | det |
| 8 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 pleasure | case |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 district | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Hawaii | the inferior chief of any district at pleasure | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Co-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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