Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 19
To the north lay the land Ulu-nui or “the Great Ulu,” possibly Ur of Chaldea.
What happens: lie · To what, where: land
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 north | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 north | det |
| 3 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nui | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 nui | punct |
| 9 | nui | nui | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 land | appos |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Ulu | cc |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ulu | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ulu | det |
| 13 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ulu | amod |
| 14 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nui | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ulu | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ulu | punct |
| 17 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 18 Ur | advmod |
| 18 | Ur | Ur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ulu | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Chaldea | case |
| 20 | Chaldea | Chaldea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ur | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the land | to the north | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme |
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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