Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 210
Thus the old royal family of Hawaii was overthrown, and the way prepared to introduce “Pili, the king, from a foreign land.”
What happens: overthrow, prepare, introduce · To what, where: old royal family, way, Pili, foreign land
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 overthrown | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 family | amod |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 family | amod |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overthrown | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hawaii | case |
| 7 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 9 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 prepared | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepared | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 overthrown | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 introduce | mark |
| 16 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prepared | xcomp |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pili | punct |
| 18 | Pili | pili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 introduce | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 king | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Pili | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 land | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 land | amod |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 introduce | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overthrown | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 overthrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | past · passive | the old royal family of Hawaii | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | the way | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | introduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pili | a foreign land | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pili=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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