Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 12
They were both so influential that they were chosen by the great Kamehameha as members of his council of chiefs and were retained by his son Liholiho, or Kamehameha II.
Who acts: arch, great Kamehameha, son · What happens: be, choose, retain · To what, where: arch
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: who acts (arch, great Kamehameha, son), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 influential | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 influential | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 influential | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 influential | advmod |
| 5 | influential | influential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 chosen | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chosen | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chosen | aux:pass |
| 9 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 influential | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Kamehameha | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Kamehameha | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Kamehameha | amod |
| 13 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chosen | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 members | case |
| 15 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chosen | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 council | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 council | nmod:poss |
| 18 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 members | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chiefs | case |
| 20 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 council | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 retained | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 retained | aux:pass |
| 23 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 chosen | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 retained | obl |
| 27 | Liholiho | Liholiho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 II | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 II | cc |
| 30 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 II | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 27 Liholiho | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 influential | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | arch | both, influential property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | past · passive | the great Kamehameha | arch | as members of Kamehameha's council of chiefs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | retain | past · passive | Kamehameha's son | 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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