Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 68
They had nothing that could be called a home, with an affectionate household gathered inside its walls.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: have, call, gather · To what, where: nothing, home, affectionate household, walls · 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 (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 household | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 household | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 household | det |
| 13 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 household | amod |
| 14 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 15 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 household | acl |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 walls | nmod:poss |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gathered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | eyes = eye | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | could · passive | a home | a affectionate household xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | gather | participle | a affectionate household not said here | household's walls | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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