Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 1
It is said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name “Thengki”—“the sweet-scented nail.”
Who acts: Chinese · What happens: say, give, scent · To what, where: It, name, clove · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chinese), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gave | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Chinese | det |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 clove | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clove | det |
| 10 | clove | clove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thengki | punct |
| 14 | Thengki | Thengki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 name | appos |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thengki | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 nail | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nail | det |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 scented | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweet | punct |
| 21 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 nail | amod |
| 22 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 nail | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 nail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | It | the scented nail parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Chinese | the name | the clove | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to clove=Recipient | |||
| 3 | scent in a quote | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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