Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 8
There was a modest grass house in one of the upland valleys of Kailua, Hawaii.
Who acts: modest grass house · What happens: be
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 (modest grass 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 4 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 house | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 valleys | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 valleys | det |
| 11 | upland | upland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 valleys | amod |
| 12 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kailua | case |
| 14 | Kailua | Kailua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 valleys | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hawaii | punct |
| 16 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kailua | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a modest grass house in one of the upland valleys of Kailua | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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