Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 11
The Nuuanu stream with its many falls and sweet waters was a place where kings had always loved to rest.
Who acts: Nuuanu stream · What happens: be, love, rest · To what, where: place, kings
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nuuanu stream), 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 | 3 stream | det |
| 2 | Nuuanu | Nuuanu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stream | compound |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 falls | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 falls | nmod:poss |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 falls | amod |
| 7 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stream | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waters | cc |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 falls | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 loved | advmod |
| 15 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 loved | aux |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 loved | advmod |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rest | mark |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 loved | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Nuuanu stream with stream's many falls and sweet waters | a place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past · perfect · passive | kings | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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