Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 233
One of the most important results was the establishment of an Aha-alii—council of chiefs—or herald’s college, which demanded the genealogy and proof of high birth, before admission was granted to the privileges of rank.
Who acts: One, college · What happens: be, demand, grant, proof · To what, where: establishment, genealogy, admission, privileges, high birth
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 (One, college), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 establishment | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 results | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 results | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 important | advmod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 results | amod |
| 6 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 establishment | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 establishment | det |
| 9 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 alii | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 alii | det |
| 12 | Aha | Aha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 alii | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 alii | punct |
| 14 | alii | alii | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 establishment | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 council | punct |
| 16 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 establishment | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 chiefs | case |
| 18 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 council | nmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 college | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 college | cc |
| 21 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 college | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 herald | case |
| 23 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chiefs | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 demanded | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 demanded | nsubj |
| 26 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 college | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 genealogy | det |
| 28 | genealogy | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 demanded | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 proof | cc |
| 30 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 genealogy | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 birth | case |
| 32 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 birth | amod |
| 33 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 proof | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 granted | punct |
| 35 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 38 granted | mark |
| 36 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 granted | aux:pass |
| 38 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 demanded | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 privileges | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 privileges | det |
| 41 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 granted | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 rank | case |
| 43 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 privileges | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 establishment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | One of the important results | the establishment and council of chiefs herald's college | of a alii Aha; council of chiefs herald's college conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | herald's college | the genealogy and proof of high birth | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme genealogy=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | admission | to the privileges of rank goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to privilege=Goal | ||||
| 4 | proof | high birth | nom proof «cognition 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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