Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 7
In Samoa there are two circular holes among the rocks at the west end of the island Savaii.
Who acts: two circular holes · What happens: be · To what, where: Samoa
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 (two circular holes), 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 | _ | 2 Samoa | case |
| 2 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 are | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 holes | nummod |
| 6 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holes | amod |
| 7 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 are | nsubj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 rocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rocks | det |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 holes | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 13 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 end | amod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rocks | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | Savaii | Savaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 island | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | two circular holes among the rocks at the west end of the island | Samoa; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in samoa=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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