Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 56
—Maori Death Chant.
To what, where: Maori Death Chant
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: 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 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chant | punct |
| 2 | Maori | maori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Chant | amod |
| 3 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chant | compound |
| 4 | Chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chant | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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