Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 184
Does the priest know that the high chief is already planning to visit him, to examine his stores and secure whatever new ornaments have been brought from Samoa?”
Who acts: priest, high chief · What happens: know, plan, visit, examine, bring · To what, where: priest, stores, Samoa · 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 (priest, high chief), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 planning | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chief | amod |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 planning | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 planning | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 planning | advmod |
| 11 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 visit | mark |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 planning | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 visit | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 examine | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 examine | mark |
| 17 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stores | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ornaments | cc |
| 21 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ornaments | amod |
| 22 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 24 ornaments | det |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ornaments | amod |
| 24 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stores | conj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 brought | aux:pass |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 examine | parataxis |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 Samoa | case |
| 29 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | the priest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | plan | present · progressive | the high chief | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | the high chief not said here | priest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | examine | to-infinitive | the priest not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bring | present · perfect · passive | priest's stores and whatever secure new ornaments | Samoa | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from samoa=Initial_Location |
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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