Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 2
But in the story of Laa-mai-Kahiki [2] the stories and genealogies of two widely separated groups of Pacific islands produce a certain degree of apparent accuracy.
Who acts: stories · What happens: separate, produce · To what, where: certain degree, story
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 (stories), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 produce | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 produce | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Laa | case |
| 6 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Laa | punct |
| 8 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Laa | dep |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kahiki | punct |
| 10 | Kahiki | Kahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Laa | conj |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 2 | punct |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Laa | flat |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 Laa | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stories | det |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 produce | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 genealogies | cc |
| 17 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stories | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 groups | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 groups | nummod |
| 20 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 21 separated | advmod |
| 21 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 groups | amod |
| 22 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stories | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 islands | case |
| 24 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 islands | compound |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 groups | nmod |
| 26 | produce | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 degree | det |
| 28 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 degree | amod |
| 29 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 produce | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 accuracy | case |
| 31 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 accuracy | amod |
| 32 | accuracy | accuracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 degree | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 produce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | participle | widely property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | produce | present | the stories of two separated groups of Pacific islands and genealogies | a certain degree of apparent accuracy | the story of Laa and Kahiki | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Result |
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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