Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 58
Three other smaller islands were called “The Monks.”
What happens: call · To what, where: Three other smaller islands · 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 islands | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 islands | amod |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 islands | amod |
| 4 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Monks | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Monks | det |
| 9 | Monks | Monk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 called | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Three other smaller islands | the Monks obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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