Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 21
Children whose names became noted in Hawaiian legends grew to manhood and womanhood around him.
Who acts: Hawaiian legends, Children · What happens: note, grow, name · To what, where: Children
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 (Hawaiian legends, Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 names | nmod:poss |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Children | nmod |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noted | aux:pass |
| 5 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 legends | case |
| 7 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legends | amod |
| 8 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noted | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 manhood | case |
| 11 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 womanhood | cc |
| 13 | womanhood | womanhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 manhood | conj |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 womanhood | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past · passive | Children Children Children's names's names | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Hawaiian legends | to manhood and womanhood around manhood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | Children Children names's names | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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