Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 10
Na-ihe (The spears) was said to be the national orator or best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs.
What happens: say, be · To what, where: Na ihe, national orator · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ihe | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Na | punct |
| 3 | ihe | ihe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 spears | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spears | det |
| 6 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ihe | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 spears | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux:pass |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 orator | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 orator | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 orator | det |
| 13 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 orator | amod |
| 14 | orator | orator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 speaker | cc |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 speaker | amod |
| 17 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 orator | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 affairs | case |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 affairs | compound |
| 20 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 speaker | nmod |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 chiefs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chiefs | det |
| 23 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 affairs | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | Na ihe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the national orator or best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs | best speaker on government affairs among the chiefs conj | 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 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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