Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 2
When the clove came to Rome, the haughty lovers of spices exclaimed “clavus”—“a nail.”
Who acts: clove, spices · What happens: come, exclaim · To what, where: Rome, clavus, nail
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 (clove, spices), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clove | det |
| 3 | clove | clove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nail | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Rome | case |
| 6 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lovers | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lovers | det |
| 9 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lovers | amod |
| 10 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Rome | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 spices | case |
| 12 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lovers | nmod |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 spices | acl |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 clavus | punct |
| 15 | clavus | clavus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 clavus | punct |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 nail | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nail | det |
| 20 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 nail | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 nail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the clove | Rome and the haughty lovers of spices | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle | spices not said here | clavus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clavus=Topic |
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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