Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 1
“The Self-reliant Dragon” is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawaiian legends.
What happens: mention · To what, where: reliant Dragon, oldest Hawaiian legends
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1]. 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 | _ | 6 Dragon | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reliant | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Self | punct |
| 5 | reliant | reliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Dragon | amod |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dragon | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 9 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 10 mentioned | advmod |
| 10 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 legends | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 legends | det |
| 13 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 legends | amod |
| 14 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 legends | amod |
| 15 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mentioned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present · passive | the reliant Dragon | the oldest Hawaiian legends | frequently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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