Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 3
The English made a slight change and said “clove.”
Who acts: English · What happens: make, say · To what, where: slight change, 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 (English), 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 English | det |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 change | det |
| 5 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 change | amod |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 clove | punct |
| 10 | clove | clove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 clove | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 clove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the English | a slight change | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the English not said here | clove | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clove=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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