Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 227
Independent of each other, the rights of each were jealously guarded.
What happens: guard · To what, where: Independent
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 | Independent | independent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 each | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Independent | nmod |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rights | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rights | det |
| 7 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 rights | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 guarded | aux:pass |
| 11 | jealously | jealously | ADV | _ | 12 guarded | advmod |
| 12 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past · passive | Independent of each | the rights of each nsubj:pass; jealously property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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