Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 15
In the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu Honua, “the first created,” there is a part devoted to Hawaii-loa, the first sea-king of the Polynesians.
What happens: create, be, devote, chant · To what, where: first, part, long Hawaiian chant, Hawaii loa, Kumu
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 chant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chant | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chant | amod |
| 4 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chant | amod |
| 5 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Kumu | case |
| 7 | Kumu | Kumu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chant | nmod |
| 8 | Honua | Honua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kumu | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chant | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 created | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 first | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 created | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 is | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 created | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 created | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 part | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 part | det |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 part | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 loa | case |
| 22 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 loa | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hawaii | punct |
| 24 | loa | loa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 devoted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 king | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 king | amod |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 king | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 sea | punct |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Polynesians | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Polynesians | det |
| 33 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 king | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create in a quote | participle · passive | the first | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a part | the long Hawaiian chant of Kumu | the first sea king of the Polynesians appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | devote | participle | a part not said here | to Hawaii loa goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to loa=Goal | ||||
| 4 | chant | Kumu | nom chant «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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