Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 44
On the island Hawaii, in a cave under a waterfall, dwelt Hina-of-the-fire, the mother of Maui.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: Hina, island
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 island | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 island | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cave | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 island | conj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 waterfall | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 waterfall | det |
| 11 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cave | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 island | punct |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Hina | Hina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fire | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 of | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 the | punct |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hina | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mother | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mother | det |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hina | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Maui | case |
| 25 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | Hina | the island and a cave under a waterfall | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hina=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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