Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 123
Holoae was a direct descendant of Paao, the eleventh century priest coming from Upolu, Samoa, to Hawaii.
Who acts: Holoae, eleventh century priest · What happens: be, come · To what, where: direct descendant, Upolu
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holoae, eleventh century priest), 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 | Holoae | Holoae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 descendant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 descendant | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 descendant | det |
| 4 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 descendant | amod |
| 5 | descendant | descendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Paao | case |
| 7 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 descendant | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 priest | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 priest | det |
| 10 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 priest | amod |
| 11 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 priest | compound |
| 12 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 descendant | parataxis |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 priest | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Upolu | case |
| 15 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Samoa | punct |
| 17 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Upolu | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hawaii | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Hawaii | case |
| 20 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Upolu | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 descendant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Holoae | a direct descendant | of Paao; the eleventh century priest parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | the eleventh century priest not said here | Upolu and Samoa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from upolu=Initial_Location |
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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