Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 31
The planets were called “Na Hoku hele”—“the going stars.”
What happens: call, go · To what, where: planets, stars · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 planets | det |
| 2 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hele | punct |
| 6 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hele | compound |
| 7 | Hoku | Hoku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Na | flat |
| 8 | hele | hele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hele | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 going | det |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 called | parataxis |
| 14 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 going | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | the planets | Na hele xcomp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | stars | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location star=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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