Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 17
Besides this chant there are many legends and references which make him an important ancestor among Hawaiians, an ancestor of islands rather than of families.
Who acts: many legends · What happens: be, make · To what, where: first
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: who acts (many legends), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 chant | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 chant | det |
| 3 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 are | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legends | amod |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 are | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 references | cc |
| 9 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 legends | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 legends | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ancestor | det |
| 14 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ancestor | amod |
| 15 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | xcomp |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 Hawaiians | case |
| 17 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ancestor | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ancestor | det |
| 20 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hawaiians | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 islands | case |
| 22 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ancestor | nmod |
| 23 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 families | cc |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 rather | fixed |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 than | fixed |
| 26 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 islands | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | many legends and references | there | besides this chant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | many legends and references | first | among Hawaiians; a important ancestor xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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