Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 77
It is an interesting poem filled with graphic references to people and places, to winds and seas, and to birds and fishes.
Who acts: song · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: interesting poem
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 (song), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 poem | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poem | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 poem | det |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 poem | amod |
| 5 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 poem | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 references | case |
| 8 | graphic | graphic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 references | amod |
| 9 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 filled | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 filled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 places | cc |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 people | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 winds | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 winds | case |
| 16 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poem | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seas | cc |
| 18 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 winds | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 birds | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 birds | cc |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 birds | case |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poem | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fishes | cc |
| 24 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 birds | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | song | a interesting poem | winds and seas appos; birds and fishes parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a interesting poem not said here | with graphic references; to people and places | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with reference=Instrument |
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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