Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 176
This is simply such a change as is found in dialects everywhere.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, find · To what, where: change, dialects
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: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 change | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 change | cop |
| 3 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 6 change | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 change | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 change | det |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 change | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dialects | case |
| 11 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obl |
| 12 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 found | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | such change | simply property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present · passive | such change not said here | dialects | everywhere property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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