Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 40
All the legends agree in stating that Laa returned to the Hawaiian Islands, that he had with him a large retinue when he visited the home of his childhood and that he brought the drum known through all the later years as Ke-eke-eke.
Who acts: legends, Laa, life, Ke · What happens: agree, state, return, have, visit, bring · To what, where: large retinue, home, drum · 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 (legends, Laa, life, Ke), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 legends | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 legends | det |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 agree | nsubj |
| 4 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 stating | mark |
| 6 | stating | state | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 agree | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 returned | mark |
| 8 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stating | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Islands | det |
| 12 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | compound |
| 13 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agree | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 retinue | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 retinue | amod |
| 22 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 visited | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 visited | nsubj |
| 25 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 home | det |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 visited | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 childhood | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 30 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 home | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 brought | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 brought | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 brought | nsubj |
| 34 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 drum | det |
| 36 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 brought | obj |
| 37 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 drum | acl |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 years | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 years | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 years | det |
| 41 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 years | advmod |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 known | obl |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 eke | mark |
| 44 | Ke | Ke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 eke | nsubj |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Ke | punct |
| 46 | eke | eke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 brought | advcl |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 eke | punct |
| 48 | eke | eke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 eke | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | all legends | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | gerund | all legends not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Laa | to the Hawaiian Islands result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result | ||||
| 4 | have | past | life | a large retinue | with set | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retinue=Patient | |||
| 5 | visit | past | life | the home of life's childhood | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | life | the drum | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent drum=Theme | ||||
| 7 | know | participle | the drum not said here | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | eke | infinitive | Ke | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | eke | infinitive | Ke not said here | tree rules |
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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