Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 68
The warm welcome was given to Moi-keha and his companions, which was always extended to high chiefs.
Who acts: companions · What happens: give, be · To what, where: warm welcome, Moi
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 (companions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 welcome | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 welcome | amod |
| 3 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Moi | case |
| 7 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 keha | punct |
| 9 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Moi | dep |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 companions | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Moi | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 extended | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 extended | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 extended | cop |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 extended | advmod |
| 17 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 companions | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 chiefs | case |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chiefs | amod |
| 20 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 extended | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the warm welcome | Moi and Moi's companions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to moi=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Moi's companions | to high chiefs; always, extended property | 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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