Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 1
To-day the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands.
Who acts: thatched house · What happens: thatch, be · To what, where: curiosity, Hawaiian Islands
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thatched house), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curiosity | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curiosity | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 curiosity | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 curiosity | det |
| 9 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Islands | det |
| 12 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | compound |
| 13 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 curiosity | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 curiosity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the thatched house | a curiosity | the Hawaiian Islands | day | 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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