Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 38
Fornander says that one set of legends gives the story of Laa’s speedy return to Hawaii with Kila.
Who acts: Fornander, one set, Laa · What happens: say, give, return · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fornander, one set, Laa), 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 | Fornander | Fornander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gives | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 set | nummod |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 legends | case |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nmod |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 return | case |
| 12 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 return | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Laa | case |
| 14 | speedy | speedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 return | amod |
| 15 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Hawaii | case |
| 17 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 return | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Kila | case |
| 19 | Kila | Kila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 return | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Fornander | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | present | one set of legends | the story of Laa's speedy return to Hawaii with Kila | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | Laa | to Hawaii; with Kila | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl with=obl |
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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