Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 5
(A great white pig with reddish eyes).”
To what, where: great white pig
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 pig | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pig | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pig | amod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pig | amod |
| 5 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pig | nmod |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 pig | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pig | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pig | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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