Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 63
Apparently there was little intercourse later with the southern groups of the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
What happens: be
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 | Apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 intercourse | amod |
| 5 | intercourse | intercourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 later | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 was | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 groups | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 groups | det |
| 9 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 groups | amod |
| 10 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 later | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 islands | det |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 groups | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ocean | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Ocean | det |
| 16 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ocean | compound |
| 17 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 islands | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | apparently, late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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