Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 8
The Hawaiians have always called themselves “Ka poe Hawaii”—“the Hawaiian people.”
What happens: call · To what, where: Hawaiians · 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hawaiians | det |
| 2 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 called | advmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 poe | punct |
| 8 | Ka | Ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 poe | compound |
| 9 | poe | poe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 poe | appos |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 poe | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 15 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · perfect · passive | the Hawaiians | Ka poe xcomp; the Hawaiian people xcomp; always property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme themselves=Result |
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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