Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 60
The sacred first-born of Laa, Who were born on the same one day.”
What happens: bear · To what, where: sacred, 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: 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 | 5 born | det |
| 2 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 born | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Laa | case |
| 7 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 born | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 born | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Laa | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle · passive | sacred | of Laa | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Laa | day | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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