Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 212
Some of the chiefs had already said, “It may be the will of the gods that the high priest become the high chief also.”
Who acts: family, gods · What happens: say, be, become · To what, where: Some, high chief · 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 (family, gods), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 chiefs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gods | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 gods | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gods | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 gods | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gods | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gods | det |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 gods | aux |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gods | det |
| 17 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 become | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 priest | det |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 priest | amod |
| 21 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | nsubj |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gods | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chief | det |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chief | amod |
| 25 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 become | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Some of the chiefs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may · future | family | of the gods | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become in a quote | present | the gods | the high chief | the high priest nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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