Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 89
One kind of men is in Kahiki—the white man.
Who acts: One kind · What happens: be · To what, where: Kahiki
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 (One kind), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kind | nummod |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Kahiki | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 men | case |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Kahiki | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Kahiki | case |
| 7 | Kahiki | Kahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Kahiki | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kahiki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One kind of men | Kahiki | the white man appos | tree rules |
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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