Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 80
Thus the Hawaiian mud-hen and her descendants have ever since had bald heads, and the Hawaiians have had the secret of fire-making.
Who acts: Hawaiian mud hen, Hawaiians · What happens: have · To what, where: bald heads, secret
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 (Hawaiian mud hen, Hawaiians), 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 | _ | 6 hen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hen | det |
| 3 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hen | amod |
| 4 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hen | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mud | punct |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 descendants | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hen | conj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 had | advmod |
| 12 | since | since | ADV | _ | 13 had | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | ccomp |
| 14 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heads | amod |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Hawaiians | det |
| 19 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | aux |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 have | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 secret | det |
| 23 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 making | case |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 making | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fire | punct |
| 27 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 secret | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Hawaiian mud hen and flesh's descendants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the Hawaiian mud hen and flesh's descendants not said here | bald heads | ever | since property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | the Hawaiians | the secret of fire making | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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