Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 32
Mars was known as “Hoku ula,” “the red star.”
What happens: know · To what, where: Mars
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 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ula | case |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ula | punct |
| 6 | Hoku | Hoku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ula | compound |
| 7 | ula | ula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 star | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 star | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 star | amod |
| 13 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 star | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 star | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Mars | as Hoku ula; the red star parataxis | tree rules |
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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