Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 37
They rejoiced and said, “There are many pieces of pahoa” (meaning iron).
Who acts: chief, many pieces · What happens: rejoice, say, be, mean · To what, where: many pieces, iron · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, many pieces), 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 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 2 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rejoiced | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pieces | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pieces | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pieces | cop |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pieces | amod |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pahoa | case |
| 12 | pahoa | pahoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | nmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pahoa | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 meaning | punct |
| 15 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 16 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meaning | obj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 meaning | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | chief | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | chief not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | many pieces | of pahoa | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | many pieces not said here | iron | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=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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