Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 147
On the other side of some sand hills in this isthmus lay Wai-luku, the home of the Maui king.
What happens: lie · To what, where: Wai, other side
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: 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 | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 hills | det |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hills | compound |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 side | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 isthmus | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 isthmus | det |
| 11 | isthmus | isthmus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hills | nmod |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 luku | punct |
| 15 | luku | luku | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 Wai | dep |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 home | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 home | det |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wai | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 21 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 king | compound |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 home | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Wai | the other side of some sand hills in this isthmus | 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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