Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 13

For instance, Hilo, in the island of Hawaii, is named after Whiro, a noted viking who sailed through many island groups with his brother, Punga, after whom the district of Puna is named.

Who acts: noted viking · What happens: name, note, sail · To what, where: many island groups, district

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noted viking), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 instance	case
2	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 named	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Hilo	punct
4	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 instance	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 island	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Hilo	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Hawaii	case
10	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 island	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 instance	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 named	aux:pass
13	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 Whiro	case
15	Whiro	Whiro	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 named	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 viking	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 viking	det
18	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 viking	amod
19	viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Whiro	appos
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sailed	nsubj
21	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 viking	acl:relcl
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 groups	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 groups	amod
24	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 groups	compound
25	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sailed	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Punga	punct
30	Punga	Punga	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Whiro	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 named	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 whom	case
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 named	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 district	det
35	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 named	nsubj:pass
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Puna	case
37	Puna	Puna	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 district	nmod
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 named	aux:pass
39	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 named	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive				after Whiro and Punga	for instance	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»
2	note	participle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sail	past	a noted viking		many island groups		with Hawaii's brother	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through group=Trajectory
4	name	present · passive		the district of Puna			whom obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 13