Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 65
Only one lived to perpetuate his name among the families of Oahu.
Who acts: one, captive · What happens: live, perpetuate, name · To what, where: name
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 (one, captive), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 perpetuate | mark |
| 5 | perpetuate | perpetuate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lived | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perpetuate | obj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 families | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 families | det |
| 10 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 perpetuate | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Oahu | case |
| 12 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 families | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | perpetuate | to-infinitive | one not said here | captive's name | among the families of Oahu | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | name | captive | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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