Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 25
Thus, according to the New Zealand story related by Sir George Grey, Maui was received in his home.
What happens: accord, relate, receive · To what, where: Zealand story, home
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 received | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 story | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 according | fixed |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 6 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Zealand | flat |
| 7 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 George | case |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | nmod:desc |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 related | obl:agent |
| 13 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Maui | punct |
| 15 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | flat |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 received | aux:pass |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | relate | participle | the Zealand story not said here | George Sir obl:agent | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · passive | the Zealand story | George's home | thus property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in home=Location |
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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