Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 34
The name “Iao” is given to one of the mountains of the Island of Maui.
What happens: give · To what, where: name, one
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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iao | punct |
| 4 | Iao | Iao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iao | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 given | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Island | det |
| 15 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mountains | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Maui | case |
| 17 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Island | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the name | one of the mountains of the Island of Maui | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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