Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 19
The place was at once named “Kulou”—“kneeling.”
What happens: name, kneel · To what, where: place · 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: 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 | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 named | aux:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 named | obl |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kulou | punct |
| 8 | Kulou | Kulou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 named | xcomp |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kulou | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kneeling | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 kneeling | punct |
| 12 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 named | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kneeling | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | the place | Kulou xcomp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kneel in a quote | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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