Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 61
This gift of three sons—a “triple canoe”—to the Hawaiians is one of the most fully accepted facts of the traditions of long ago.
Who acts: gift · What happens: be, accept, gift · To what, where: one, 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 (gift), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sons | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sons | nummod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gift | nmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 canoe | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 canoe | det |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 canoe | punct |
| 9 | triple | triple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 canoe | compound |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gift | appos |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 canoe | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gift | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Hawaiians | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hawaiians | det |
| 15 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 gift | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 facts | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 facts | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 fully | advmod |
| 21 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 22 accepted | advmod |
| 22 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 facts | amod |
| 23 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 traditions | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 traditions | det |
| 26 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 facts | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ago | case |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 ago | advmod |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 26 traditions | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this gift of three sons to the Hawaiians | one | of the accepted facts of the traditions | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accept | participle | fully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gift | three sons | to the Hawaiians | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient 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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