Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 203
All the district chiefs finally deserted him, and gave adherence to Paao.
Who acts: district chiefs · What happens: desert, give · To what, where: Kapawa, adherence, Paao
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 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 chiefs | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 3 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chiefs | amod |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deserted | nsubj |
| 5 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 6 deserted | advmod |
| 6 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deserted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deserted | conj |
| 11 | adherence | adherence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Paao | case |
| 13 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert | past | all district chiefs | Kapawa | finally property | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source | |||
| 2 | give | past | all district chiefs not said here | adherence | Paao | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adherence=Theme to paao=Recipient |
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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