Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 15
He went to Hawaii with his uncles and spent a part of his boyhood in the royal valley of Waipio.
Who acts: manhood · What happens: go, spend · To what, where: Hawaii, part, royal valley
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manhood), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Hawaii | case |
| 4 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 uncles | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spent | cc |
| 9 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spent | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boyhood | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boyhood | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 valley | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 valley | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 valley | amod |
| 18 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spent | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Waipio | case |
| 20 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 valley | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | manhood | Hawaii | with manhood's uncles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | spend | past | manhood not said here | a part of manhood's boyhood | the royal valley of Waipio | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset |
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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