Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 2
By W. D. WESTERVELT Author of “Maui the Demi-God of Polynesia”; “Legends of Old Honolulu”; “Hawaiian Gods and Ghosts”; “Around the Poi-bowl”; “Hawaiian Volcanoes,” etc.
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 D. | case |
| 2 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 D. | compound |
| 3 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | WESTERVELT | WESTERVELT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Author | compound |
| 5 | Author | Author | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 D. | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Maui | case |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maui | punct |
| 8 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Author | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 God | det |
| 10 | Demi | Demi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 God | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 God | punct |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maui | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Polynesia | case |
| 14 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 God | nmod |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 God | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Legends | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Legends | punct |
| 18 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 D. | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Honolulu | case |
| 20 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Honolulu | amod |
| 21 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Legends | nmod |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Honolulu | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Gods | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Gods | punct |
| 25 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Gods | amod |
| 26 | Gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Honolulu | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Ghosts | cc |
| 28 | Ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Gods | conj |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Gods | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 bowl | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 bowl | punct |
| 32 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 36 bowl | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bowl | det |
| 34 | Poi | Poi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 bowl | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Poi | punct |
| 36 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Honolulu | appos |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 bowl | punct |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 Volcanoes | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Volcanoes | punct |
| 40 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Volcanoes | amod |
| 41 | Volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Legends | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Volcanoes | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Volcanoes | punct |
| 44 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 41 Volcanoes | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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