Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 37
At Tahiti they found Laa and his uncle Olopana.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: find · To what, where: Laa, Tahiti
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 (Hawaiians), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Tahiti | case |
| 2 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 uncle | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Laa | conj |
| 9 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 uncle | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Hawaiians = hawaiian | Laa and Tahiti's uncle | Tahiti | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent laa=Theme at tahiti=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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