Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 6
The youngest was Aukele-nui-a-Iku, Aukele the Great Son of Iku.
What happens: be
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 youngest | cop |
| 4 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 youngest | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Aukele | punct |
| 6 | nui | nui | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Aukele | dep |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Iku | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Iku | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Iku | punct |
| 10 | Iku | Iku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Aukele | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Aukele | punct |
| 12 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Aukele | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Son | det |
| 14 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Son | amod |
| 15 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Aukele | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Iku | case |
| 17 | Iku | Iku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Son | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Aukele and a Iku and Aukele appos; young property | 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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