Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 86
But no writer has chronicled how the young husband carried the news from Kailua to the grass house under the cocoanut trees.
Who acts: writer, young husband · What happens: chronicle, carry · To what, where: news, Kailua
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 (writer, young husband), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 chronicled | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 writer | det |
| 3 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chronicled | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chronicled | aux |
| 5 | chronicled | chronicle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 carried | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 husband | amod |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chronicled | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Kailua | case |
| 14 | Kailua | Kailua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 21 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trees | compound |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chronicled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chronicle | present · perfect | no writer | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | the young husband | the news | Kailua | to the grass house; under the cocoanut trees | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme from kailua=Initial_Location to house=Destination |
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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