Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 71
She had many suitors among the young chiefs, but could not decide upon the one highest in her esteem.
Who acts: Puna · What happens: have, not decide, esteem · To what, where: many suitors
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 (Puna), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 suitors | amod |
| 4 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefs | amod |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decide | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 decide | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 decide | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 decide | advmod |
| 13 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decide | obl |
| 17 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 one | amod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 esteem | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 esteem | nmod:poss |
| 20 | esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 highest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Puna | many suitors | among the young chiefs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Patient | |||
| 2 | not decide | could | upon the one | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | esteem | Puna | nom esteem «state transitive»: 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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