Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 23
It is better for us, brothers, to be kind to other people.
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 brothers | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brothers | punct |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 better | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kind | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kind | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kind | cop |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 better | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kind | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for brothers us; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | to other people; kind property | 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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