Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 27
These he made his home, according to the Society Island legends, becoming the creator of the islands.
Who acts: These · What happens: make, accord, become · To what, where: home, creator
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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 legends | punct |
| 7 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 legends | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 according | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 legends | det |
| 10 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Island | compound |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 legends | compound |
| 12 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 becoming | punct |
| 14 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creator | det |
| 16 | creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 becoming | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 islands | det |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 creator | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | These | Ti's home | accord the Island legends; Ti nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | become | gerund | These not said here | the creator of the islands | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient creator=Result |
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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