Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 4
The genealogy of this Raa family coincides very closely in extent with the number of names given in the Hawaiian genealogies from the time of the visit of Laa from Tahiti to his uncle Moi-keha the Restless and his subsequent return to Tahiti.
Who acts: genealogy, Moi · What happens: coincide, give, visit, return · To what, where: extent, names, Hawaiian genealogies, Laa
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 (genealogy, Moi), 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 | 2 genealogy | det |
| 2 | genealogy | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coincides | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 family | det |
| 5 | Raa | Raa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 family | compound |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 genealogy | nmod |
| 7 | coincides | coincide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 closely | advmod |
| 9 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 7 coincides | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 extent | case |
| 11 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coincides | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 number | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coincides | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 names | case |
| 16 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 number | nmod |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 names | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 genealogies | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 genealogies | det |
| 20 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 genealogies | amod |
| 21 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 visit | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 visit | det |
| 27 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 time | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Laa | case |
| 29 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 visit | nmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Tahiti | case |
| 31 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Laa | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 uncle | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 34 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coincides | obl |
| 35 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 uncle | appos |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 keha | punct |
| 37 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 Moi | dep |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Restless | det |
| 39 | Restless | Restless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 keha | acl:relcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 return | cc |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 return | nmod:poss |
| 42 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 return | amod |
| 43 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Restless | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Tahiti | case |
| 45 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 return | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 coincides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coincide | present | the genealogy of this Raa family | extent | with the number of names; to Tahiti's uncle; closely property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with number=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | give | participle | names not said here | the Hawaiian genealogies | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | visit | Laa from Tahiti | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | return | Moi | to Tahiti | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=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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