Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 3
The Society Islands have the story of Raa who became a ruler and established a line of rulers which has continued to the present day.
Who acts: Society Islands, story · What happens: have, become, establish, continue · To what, where: story, ruler, line, rulers
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 (Society Islands, story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Islands | det |
| 2 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Islands | compound |
| 3 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Raa | case |
| 8 | Raa | Raa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ruler | det |
| 12 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 established | cc |
| 14 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 became | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 line | det |
| 16 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 established | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rulers | case |
| 18 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 line | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 continued | aux |
| 21 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 rulers | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 continued | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Society Islands | the story of Raa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the story of Raa | a ruler | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | establish | past | the story of Raa not said here | a line of rulers | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | ||||
| 4 | continue | present · perfect · passive | rulers | day | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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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