Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 8
Olopana and Laa remained in the “wide spreading” valley under the shadow of what the Hawaiians called the mountain Kapa-ahu the Tapa Cloak in far away Tahiti.
Who acts: Olopana, Hawaiians · What happens: remain, call · To what, where: spreading valley, mountain · 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 (Olopana, Hawaiians), 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 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Laa | cc |
| 3 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Olopana | conj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 spreading | punct |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spreading | amod |
| 9 | spreading | spreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 valley | compound |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 spreading | punct |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 shadow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shadow | det |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 shadow | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Hawaiians | det |
| 18 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 called | nsubj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountain | det |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | obj |
| 22 | Kapa | Kapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mountain | appos |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ahu | punct |
| 24 | ahu | ahu | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 Kapa | dep |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Cloak | det |
| 26 | Tapa | Tapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Cloak | compound |
| 27 | Cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 far | case |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 Tahiti | advmod |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 far | advmod |
| 31 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Cloak | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Olopana and Laa | the spreading valley | under the shadow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location | |||
| 2 | call | past | the Hawaiians | the mountain | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mountain=Recipient |
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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