Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 92
On Molokai there was also a large taro patch.
What happens: be · To what, where: large taro patch, Molokai
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Molokai | case |
| 2 | Molokai | Molokai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 patch | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 patch | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 patch | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 patch | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 patch | amod |
| 8 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 patch | compound |
| 9 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 patch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a large taro patch | Molokai | 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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