Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 53
A family of mud hens, worshipped by some of the Hawaiians in later years, understood the art of fire-making.
Who acts: family · What happens: worshipp, understand · To what, where: family, art
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 (family), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hens | case |
| 4 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hens | compound |
| 5 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 family | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 worshipped | punct |
| 7 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 family | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 some | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 worshipped | obl:agent |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Hawaiians | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hawaiians | det |
| 12 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 years | amod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worshipped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 family | punct |
| 17 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 art | det |
| 19 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understood | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 making | case |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fire | punct |
| 23 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 art | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worshipp | participle | a family of mud hens not said here | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | a family of mud hens | the art of fire making | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus |
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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