Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 53
Some of these are at Hawa-i-ki (Hawaii) and some at Ao-tea-roa (New Zealand) but the greater part of them remained at Hawaiki.
Who acts: Some, ki · What happens: be, remain · To what, where: ki, Hawaiki
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, ki), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 ki | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ki | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 ki | case |
| 6 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ki | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ki | punct |
| 8 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ki | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ki | punct |
| 10 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 remained | nsubj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hawaii | punct |
| 12 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ki | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hawaii | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 roa | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 roa | det |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Ao | case |
| 17 | Ao | Ao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 roa | obl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ao | punct |
| 19 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roa | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tea | punct |
| 21 | roa | roa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ki | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Zealand | punct |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zealand | flat |
| 24 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 roa | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Zealand | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 part | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 part | det |
| 28 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 part | amod |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roa | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 part | nmod |
| 32 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 Hawaiki | case |
| 34 | Hawaiki | Hawaiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 remained | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Some of these | ki and some tea roa at Ao but the greater part of ki | Hawa nsubj; i nsubj; Hawaii appos; some tea roa at Ao but the greater part of ki conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remain | past | ki and some tea roa at Ao but the greater part of ki | Hawaiki | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hawaiki=Location |
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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