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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 200

“The bird that speaks” flew to Kapawa with the news that the priest from afar was seeking the wisdom of the gods to use against him, and that the chiefs were organising a rebellion.

Who acts: bird, priest, chiefs · What happens: speak, fly, seek, use, organise · To what, where: Kapawa, wisdom, rebellion · 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 (bird, priest, chiefs), 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

punctdetnsubjnsubjacl:relclpunctcaseoblcasedetoblmarkdetnsubjcasenmodauxadvcldetobjcasedetnmodmarkadvclcaseoblpunctccmarkdetnsubjauxconjdetobjpunctroot“PUNCTTheDETbirdNOUNthatPRONspeaksVERB”PUNCTflewVERBtoADPKapawaPROPNwithADPtheDETnewsNOUNthatSCONJtheDETpriestNOUNfromADPafarNOUNwasAUXseekingVERBtheDETwisdomNOUNofADPtheDETgodsNOUNtoPARTuseVERBagainstADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJtheDETchiefsNOUNwereAUXorganisingVERBaDETrebellionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 flewpunct
2ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 birddet
3birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing7 flewnsubj
4thatthatPRONPronType=Rel5 speaksnsubj
5speaksspeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 birdacl:relcl
6”"PUNCT_5 speakspunct
7flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoADP_9 Kapawacase
9KapawaKapawaPROPNNumber=Sing7 flewobl
10withwithADP_12 newscase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 newsdet
12newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing7 flewobl
13thatthatSCONJ_19 seekingmark
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 priestdet
15priestpriestNOUNNumber=Sing19 seekingnsubj
16fromfromADP_17 afarcase
17afarafarNOUNNumber=Sing15 priestnmod
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 seekingaux
19seekingseekVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 flewadvcl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 wisdomdet
21wisdomwisdomNOUNNumber=Sing19 seekingobj
22ofofADP_24 godscase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 godsdet
24godsgodNOUNNumber=Plur21 wisdomnmod
25totoPART_26 usemark
26useuseVERBVerbForm=Inf19 seekingadvcl
27againstagainstADP_28 himcase
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 useobl
29,,PUNCT_35 organisingpunct
30andandCCONJ_35 organisingcc
31thatthatSCONJ_35 organisingmark
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 chiefsdet
33chiefschiefNOUNNumber=Plur35 organisingnsubj
34werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 organisingaux
35organisingorganiseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 flewconj
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 rebelliondet
37rebellionrebellionNOUNNumber=Sing35 organisingobj
38..PUNCT_7 flewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: other in a quotepresentthe birdvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2flypastthe birdKapawawith the newsvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kapawa=Result
3seekpast · progressivethe priest from afarthe wisdom of the godsvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme
4useto-infinitivethe priest from afar not said hereagainst priestvn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5organisepast · progressivethe chiefsa rebelliontree 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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