Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 5
It was the same story told over again on islands or continents.
Who acts: life · What happens: be, tell over · To what, where: same story, 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 (life), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 story | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 story | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 told | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 told | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 continents | cc |
| 12 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 islands | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | life | the same story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell over speech: assert | participle | the same story not said here | islands or continents | again | over property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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