Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 22
Olopana soon found a beautiful young chiefess, who was in full sympathy with his ambitions, whom he took from her home as his life-companion.
Who acts: Olopana, beautiful young chiefess · What happens: find, be, take, ambition · To what, where: beautiful young chiefess, full sympathy, ambitions, home
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olopana, beautiful young chiefess), 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 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chiefess | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chiefess | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chiefess | amod |
| 7 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sympathy | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sympathy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sympathy | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sympathy | case |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sympathy | amod |
| 13 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chiefess | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ambitions | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ambitions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ambitions | ambition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sympathy | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whom | punct |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 took | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ambitions | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 companion | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 companion | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 companion | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 life | punct |
| 28 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Olopana | a beautiful young chiefess | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chiefess=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | a beautiful young chiefess | full sympathy | with Olopana's ambitions | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | Olopana | Olopana's ambitions | Valley's home | as Olopana's life companion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from home=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | ambition | Olopana | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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