Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 175

In that strange far-off land of the ancestors—the mysterious “Floating Island”—the “Hidden Island of Kane,” it is said they still live under the rule of their younger brother.

Who acts: islands, younger brother · What happens: float, say, live, rule · To what, where: land, strange land, rule · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (islands, younger brother), 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	_	7 land	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 land	nsubj
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 land	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 land	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ancestors	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ancestors	det
10	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 land	nmod
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 Island	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Island	det
13	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Island	amod
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Island	punct
15	Floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 Island	amod
16	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 land	appos
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Island	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 Island	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Island	det
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Island	punct
21	Hidden	Hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Island	compound
22	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 land	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Kane	case
24	Kane	Kane	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Island	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 land	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 land	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 said	aux:pass
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 live	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 live	advmod
32	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 said	ccomp
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 rule	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rule	det
35	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 live	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 brother	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brother	nmod:poss
38	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 brother	amod
39	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rule	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	float in a quote	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		land	strange land that of the ancestors		tree rules
3	live	present	islands = island		the rule of islands's younger brother	still	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location
4	rule		islands's younger brother				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 175

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 175