Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 88
Then Lohiau proposed to his chiefs that he should take this beautiful chiefess from Kauai as his queen, and his thought seemed good to all.
Who acts: Lohiau, mist, thought · What happens: propose, take, seem, think · To what, where: chiefs, beautiful chiefess, Kauai
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lohiau, mist, thought), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 proposed | advmod |
| 2 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 proposed | nsubj |
| 3 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 chiefs | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 proposed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proposed | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 chiefess | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chiefess | amod |
| 13 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Kauai | case |
| 15 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 queen | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 queen | nmod:poss |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seemed | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nmod:poss |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proposed | conj |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 seemed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | Lohiau | mist's chiefs | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chief=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | should | mist | this beautiful chiefess | Kauai | as mist's queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chiefess=Theme from kauai=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | seem | past | mist's thought | to all; good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think | mist | nom thought «cognition 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 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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