Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 211
Paao was afraid that the district chiefs would ask him for a high chief as soon as they should come together.
Who acts: Paao, district chiefs, chiefs · What happens: be, ask, come together · To what, where: 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 (Paao, district chiefs, 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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 ask | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chiefs | det |
| 6 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chiefs | amod |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | aux |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chief | amod |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ask | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 soon | advcl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Paao | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | would | the district chiefs | Paao | for a high chief; soon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come together | should | chiefs = chief | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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