Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 174
One day the district chief of Hilo came to the temple, asking to see “the priest of the brother tongue, who worshipped the two round white gods.”
Who acts: district chief, priest · What happens: come, ask, see, worshipp · To what, where: temple, priest, two round white gods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (district chief, priest), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 4 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hilo | case |
| 7 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 temple | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temple | det |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asking | punct |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asking | xcomp |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 priest | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 priest | det |
| 18 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tongue | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tongue | det |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tongue | compound |
| 22 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 priest | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 worshipped | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 worshipped | nsubj |
| 25 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 priest | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gods | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 gods | nummod |
| 28 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gods | amod |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gods | amod |
| 30 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 worshipped | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the district chief of Hilo | the temple | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the district chief of Hilo not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the district chief of Hilo not said here | the priest of the brother tongue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer priest=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | worshipp in a quote | past | the priest of the brother tongue | the two round white gods | 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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