Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 2
This dragon was probably a very old crocodile worshipped as the ancestor goddess of the Hawaiian chief families.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, worshipp · To what, where: old crocodile
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crocodile | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crocodile | cop |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 8 crocodile | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crocodile | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 old | advmod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crocodile | amod |
| 8 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 crocodile | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 goddess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goddess | det |
| 12 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goddess | compound |
| 13 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worshipped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 families | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 families | det |
| 16 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 families | amod |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 families | compound |
| 18 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 goddess | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crocodile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this dragon | a old crocodile | probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | worshipp | participle | a old crocodile not said here | as the ancestor goddess of the Hawaiian chief families | tree rules |
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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