Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 173
In the Hawaiian stories he was always known as Laa-mai-Kahiki.
What happens: know · To what, where: Laa, Hawaiian stories
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. 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 stories | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 3 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 known | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 known | advmod |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Laa | case |
| 10 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Laa | punct |
| 12 | mai | mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Laa | dep |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kahiki | punct |
| 14 | Kahiki | Kahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Laa | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Laa | the Hawaiian stories | as Laa and Kahiki; always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as laa=Attribute |
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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