Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 54
The ancient Hawaiian chants recorded the names of the three sons of Laa thus:
Who acts: ancient Hawaiian chants · What happens: record, name · To what, where: names, three sons
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 (ancient Hawaiian chants), 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 | 4 chants | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chants | amod |
| 3 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chants | amod |
| 4 | chants | chant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recorded | nsubj |
| 5 | recorded | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 names | det |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recorded | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sons | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sons | nummod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 names | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Laa | case |
| 13 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 recorded | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | past | the ancient Hawaiian chants | the names of the three sons of Laa | thus property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | the three sons of Laa | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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