Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 42
“Is this the talk of the common people?”
What happens: be · To what, where: talk
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: 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 talk | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 talk | det |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 talk | det |
| 5 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talk | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this talk | of the common people | 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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