Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 185
The dragon told him how the entire household of gods, dragons and men had found a new home, in the Islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: tell, find · To what, where: house, entire household, Islands · 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 (dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 found | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 household | det |
| 7 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 household | amod |
| 8 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gods | case |
| 10 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 household | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragons | punct |
| 12 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gods | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 men | cc |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gods | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 home | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 home | amod |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Islands | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Islands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Islands | det |
| 23 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Oahu | case |
| 25 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Islands | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Hawaii | cc |
| 27 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Oahu | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the dragon | house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | the entire household of gods and dragons and men | the Islands of Oahu and Hawaii | a new home obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme home=Attribute |
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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