Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 58
The chiefs of the different districts of the various islands had their favorite meeting-places for any sport in which they desired to engage.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: have, desire, engage · To what, where: favorite meeting places, sport
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs), 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 | 2 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 districts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 districts | det |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 districts | amod |
| 6 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chiefs | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 islands | amod |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 districts | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 places | nmod:poss |
| 13 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 places | amod |
| 14 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 places | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meeting | punct |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sport | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sport | det |
| 19 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 desired | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 desired | nsubj |
| 23 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sport | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 engage | mark |
| 25 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 desired | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the chiefs of the different districts of the various islands | chiefs's favorite meeting places | for any sport | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | |||
| 2 | desire | past | chiefs = chief | any sport | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | engage not said to happen | to-infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: 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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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