Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 32
It is probable, however, that some of the old prophets and astrologers of their fathers were with the young people as their priestly guardians.
Who acts: love, some · What happens: be
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 (love, some), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 probable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 probable | cop |
| 3 | probable | probable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 probable | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 people | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 people | mark |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 people | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 prophets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prophets | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prophets | amod |
| 12 | prophets | prophet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 astrologers | cc |
| 14 | astrologers | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prophets | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fathers | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 astrologers | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 people | cop |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 people | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 probable | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 guardians | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 guardians | nmod:poss |
| 25 | priestly | priestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 guardians | amod |
| 26 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 people | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 probable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | love | however, probable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | some of the old prophets and astrologers of adventures's fathers | with the young people; as adventures's priestly guardians | tree rules |
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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