Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 194
He knew that by becoming the high priest of the chiefs he would establish his position in Hawaii.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: know, become, establish · To what, where: high priest, position, Hawaii · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 establish | mark |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 becoming | mark |
| 5 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 establish | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 priest | amod |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 becoming | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chiefs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chiefs | det |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 priest | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 establish | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 establish | aux |
| 14 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 position | nmod:poss |
| 16 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 establish | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Hawaii | case |
| 18 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 establish | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Paao | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | become | gerund | Paao not said here | the high priest of the chiefs | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | establish | would | Paao | Paao's position | Hawaii | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient |
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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