Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 226
The priest and the king stand out from the mists of the past, representing two great forces of Hawaiian government—the religious and the civil.
Who acts: priest · What happens: stand out, represent, mist · To what, where: mists, two great forces, past
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 (priest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 king | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 priest | conj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stand | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mists | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mists | det |
| 10 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 past | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 past | det |
| 13 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mists | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 representing | punct |
| 15 | representing | represent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stand | advcl |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 forces | nummod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forces | amod |
| 18 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 representing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 government | case |
| 20 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 government | amod |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forces | nmod |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 religious | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 religious | det |
| 24 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 representing | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 civil | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 civil | det |
| 27 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 religious | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | infinitive | the priest and the king | the mists of the past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | represent | gerund | the priest and the king not said here | two great forces of Hawaiian government | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mist | the past | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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