Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 6
In New Zealand antiquity he was said to have aided other gods in the creation of man.
What happens: say, aid, create · To what, where: name, Zealand antiquity, other gods, creation, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 antiquity | case |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 antiquity | compound |
| 4 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 aided | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 aided | aux |
| 10 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | xcomp |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gods | amod |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 aided | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 creation | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 creation | det |
| 15 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 aided | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 creation | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | name | Zealand antiquity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | aid | to-infinitive · perfect | other gods | the creation of man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | create | man | nom creation «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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