Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 22
They had a famous war shell known as the “kihapu.”
Who acts: natives · What happens: have, know · To what, where: famous war shell
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shell | det |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shell | amod |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shell | compound |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shell | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 kihapu | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kihapu | det |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kihapu | punct |
| 11 | kihapu | kihapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | natives = native | a famous war shell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | a famous war shell not said here | as the kihapu | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as kihapu=Attribute |
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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