Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 37
His father, Ru, was the supporter of the heavens.
Who acts: father · What happens: be · To what, where: supporter
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: who acts (father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supporter | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ru | punct |
| 4 | Ru | Ru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 father | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 supporter | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 supporter | det |
| 8 | supporter | supporter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heavens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heavens | det |
| 11 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 supporter | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supporter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Maui's father | the supporter | of the heavens | 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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