Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 77
The story of the “battle of Kua-moo” must be told very briefly.
What happens: tell, battle · To what, where: story, Kua moo · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 battle | punct |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 moo | case |
| 8 | Kua | Kua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moo | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 moo | punct |
| 10 | moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battle | nmod |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 moo | punct |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 briefly | advmod |
| 16 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 14 told | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must · passive | the story of the battle of Kua moo | briefly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | battle in a quote | Kua moo | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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