Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 234
In meeting this demand genealogies became of great importance.
What happens: meet, become · To what, where: demand genealogies
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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 meeting | mark |
| 2 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 became | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 genealogies | det |
| 4 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genealogies | compound |
| 5 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 meeting | obj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 importance | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 importance | amod |
| 9 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | gerund | this demand genealogies | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genealogy=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past | of great importance | 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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