Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 178
Only a dragon was left—one of the family of the “Self-reliant Dragon.”
What happens: leave · To what, where: dragon
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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 left | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Dragon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dragon | det |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dragon | punct |
| 14 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reliant | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Self | punct |
| 16 | reliant | reliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Dragon | amod |
| 17 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | a dragon | one of the family of the reliant Dragon parataxis | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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